Book reviews, recommendations and literary life.
Book reviews, recommendations and literary life.
Two things that won’t shock anyone. 1. I miss travelling and holidays. 2. I think Paris is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. As such, I recently picked up The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris which has been on my bookshelf for around a year now. I have …
It goes without saying that 2020 is a year that will go down in history. There will be oh-so-many books written about. Memoirs, fiction and studies on the political, social and economic effect that it’s had on the world. I for one didn’t think I was ready to read about lockdown yet. It felt too …
I feel like it’s a theme of my blog that I am a huge fan of The High Low, and its hosts Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes. It’s almost getting to the point where I look like I do PR for them. (I’ll be walking around in a sandwich board announcing new podcast episodes any …
This week I put a post on my Instagram page asking how much non-fiction people read. I enjoyed reading the responses and seeing how, like me, some people start to reach more for non-fiction as they grow older. For me, it’s a way of continuous learning which I appreciate more now than ever. One of my …
Since I started this blog I’ve had Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want by Ruby Tandoh on my list of books to review. (Hereon in Eat Up, for brevity.) It’s a book that sits innocently on my shelf, completely unaware of the massive impact it had on me. I’m probably not alone …
In 2018 I volunteered at the Cardiff Book Festival and one of the authors doing a panel was Lyndall Gordon. It was about how women authors have helped shaped the literary world today which is something I am so interested in, but as I was helping out I couldn’t go! So to make up for …
