Goodbye 2010, Hello 2011

Happy New Year! I hope you have all been having an enjoyable and indulgent festive period; may you have been bestowed with books and grey ones for those of you still awaiting your Persephone Secret Santa gift. Santa Claus did not -sadly- bring me reinstated internet access so I am still limited at home for [...]

Recent Acquisitions

Ahem. I seem to have acquired a good few books over the last month. A number of these, if not all, have transpired from my recent desire to return to my reading roots and the above reflect my true and yet diverse reading tastes. Very few of the titles are actually new fiction but those [...]

A Single Man

A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood is set in California during a single day in 1962 and concerns George, a grieving middle-aged English college professor, in th e aftermath of the death of his partner, Jim. A tender and stark evocation of grief, A Single Man is also exceptionally perceptive and was one of the [...]

Recent Acquisitions

A few books have dropped through the letter-box of Paperback Reader abode over the last week and, at the time of going to press, I have read one of them with a review forthcoming. I spotted Plan for Chaos by John Wyndham in a bookshop recently and was instantly intrigued as it was a title [...]