The Victorian Chaise-longue Quiz

Nicola Beauman of Persephone Books very generously gave Verity and I new copies of books for give-aways during this Persephone Reading Week. Lydia from the Lamb’s Conduit Street shop and myself carefully selected a few; Doreen by Barbara Noble was to mark the forthcoming seventieth anniversary of the Blitz (please see Verity’s WWII quiz), The [...]

On the Bedside Table

Do you have several books on the go at once? I’m usually what you would consider a monogamous reader: a girl who is loyal to one book at a time; occasionally though I read a few books at once, especially longer classics and books that I am reading over an extended period of time. Books [...]

Recent Acquisitions

Here they are, the first books of 2010. I’ve even read one already and began another! The Spare Room by Helen Garner: Canongate declared this “the decade’s best unread book”, I popped it on my wish-list and when Frances of Nonsuch Book was cleaning out some book, I took this one off her hands; Frances [...]

Persephone Biannually

I am relieved that the Royal Mail strikes in the UK did not prevent me from receiving the Persephone 2009 Autumn/Winter Biannually as it allowed me to spend a pleasant hour yesterday perusing it whilst drinking a Chai latte in Starbucks (no cake, alas). I read the Biannually from cover to cover, flicked through the [...]

Little Boy Lost

I purchased Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski in February of this year (I tend to purchase the Classics from online booksellers and the dove-greys from Persephone themselves, which is why I can be clear on when I bought it) and I am ashamed that I haven’t read it until now. Not ashamed because it [...]

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