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

Strictly speaking this installment of Recent Acquisitions are not that recent but from early last month. I forgot to post them whilst I was away (despite adding one of them to my summer reading pile) but wanted to share them with you before the latest -and Booker longlist heavy- acquisitions. Kirsty of Oxford University Press [...]

Claire’s Corner

So, I’ve been blogging rather sporadically of late; all I can offer as a reason is that I’ve been busy and London was in the sweaty grips of a heatwave (the operative word being “was”). Pedicures and Pimm’s have been more appealing than posting, to be honest, but I do miss conversing about all things [...]

Paper Towns by John Green

John Green’s writing has been described as being privy to “a secret you can’t wait to divulge” and “like a John Hughes film… quirky and funny [mixed with] Sofia Coppola” (both in relation to his first novel, Looking for Alaska); Nymeth -recommendation reliant- is of the belief that “John Green can do no wrong”; my [...]

Recent Acquisitions

This latest installment of recent acquisitions actually filtered in book by book a few weeks ago but I haven’t had a chance to post about them until now. These all happen to be review copies sent my publishers but I do have some purchases to share soon. Alice from Bloomsbury sent me a copy of [...]