Scottish Fiction

A blogging friend mentioned at the weekend that she didn’t know I was Scottish; I was quite surprised by that as I thought I was always rambling on about trips home to Glasgow and the books that are left there but apparently I have not been as upfront about my heritage as I had thought. [...]

Memento Mori

“Memento Mori” is a Latin phrase translated as “Remember You Must Die” and it is that phrase which is anonymously uttered in a series of insidious phone-calls to a group of elderly friends, the premise of the novel by Muriel Spark. This macabre tale was only the third of many novels published by Spark and [...]

Recent Acquisitions

I have a few books to share with you that have recently been acquired from publishers. I am keeping the receipt of review copies at a minimum as I find it rather overwhelming but these are all titles that I would have bought anyway and that were on my wish-list. My only issue now is [...]

Book Cover Collecting

If you managed to read my guest post for Verity’s Virago Venture then you will know that I am hopeless at resisting a pretty book cover and if you read my blog regularly then that probably didn’t escape your notice; I also enjoy owning matching sets of books and today’s blog post covers both. Virago [...]

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