Last year to celebrate my birthday I went on a little literary pilgrimage to visit some of London’s best bookshops. I’d visited many over the years but this trip was different, a devoted solo date with myself where I could browse the bookshelves guilt free....
“Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages,...
Sometimes your ‘To Be Read’ list is longer than your arm and you have a perilously high stack of books next to your bed. Then there are other times where you’re not quite sure what to read next. The best-selling list isn’t cutting the mustard...
This first post comes out amidst global uncertainty, so if there’s ever been a time where I have relied on the escapism of books, it’s now. A few days into the new lockdown regime, I browsed my bookshelves for something to read that would bring...