Claire’s Corner

Apologies for my absence; I have been a bad blogger this week but I intend to fully catch up on blog comments, reviews and reading your blogs over the weekend. I was at home in Glasgow, had a lovely time with family and friends, but ever since the train rolled across the border it has [...]

Claire’s Corner

*the above photograph features a handful of previous Orange Prize winners that I have to hand. The longlist for the 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction has been announced and I am delighted/dismayed/disconcerted (delete where appropriate) that 1) I only managed to predict 5/20 of the titles on the list 2) I have read 3.5 (I’m [...]

Claire's Corner

Thank you all for celebrating my first blog birthday with me; I appreciated your warm and thoughtful comments. I was also interested in seeing which books I have highlighted over the past year were selected should you win my give-away; I was delighted to see so many of you coveting my favourite Persephone book, Lady [...]

Claire's Corner

Each month the Riverside Readers book group meets on the South Bank (close to the London Eye, photographed above) to discuss our monthly book choice. I noticed earlier this week that all but one of our choices feature on the Guardian’s 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read list, which is entirely coincidental although when I came [...]

Claire’s Corner

When India Knight posted about the new Nancy Mitford editions published next week by Penguin (Fig Tree Press) I was apoplectic with excitement. The covers are cute and quirky and I covet them. Now, hold onto your jaws people, I have a confession to make … I haven’t read any Nancy Mitford yet. To be [...]

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