The Bloody Chamber Draw

Thank you to everyone who entered the draw attached to my commemorative Angela Carter post. I am pleased to see so much interest in discovering Carter’s work and or exploring it further and I am looking forward to sharing Angela Carter Month in April with you. With an interest in fairy tales that goes beyond [...]

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 [...]

Angela Carter

Angela Carter died eighteen years ago today from cancer; to say that her death was a loss to literature is an understatement. At the time of her death she was working on a sequel to Jane Eyre that followed the older Adèle Varens, Jane’s stepdaughter; only a synopsis of this work survives and that is [...]

A Man in the Zoo & Lady Into Fox

Blogging definitely opens me up to more obscure titles and A Man in the Zoo and Lady Into Fox by David Garnett both fall into the category of neglected classics; one was a novella that was a gem to discover and the other was more like cubic zirconia that should have stayed unearthed. A Man [...]

Even More Recent Acquisitions…

Over the last week a few packages have arrived from various publishers and one newspaper (and a little one from ebay). Verity’s posts about the Chalet School series of children’s books have been tempting me to reread them for a number of months; when I came across an inexpensive Armada copy of the first book, [...]

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