At home with Jane Austen 

13th November 2017

I’m not sure why it took me 10 years of living in Thames Ditton to drive the 50 minutes down the A3 to Chawton and Jane Austen’s House Museum, but it definitely won’t be my […]

Book review: Am I a modern day Pooter?

6th February 2014

Reading my latest book club selection, the 19th century classic The Diary of a Nobody, I couldn’t help but reflect on the parallels with modern day blogging. The fictional Mr Pooter saw no reason why the […]

Book review: The Queen of reading

10th August 2013

One of the best things about being in a book club is that you often find yourself reading a gem that you somehow managed to miss when it was originally published – and even when […]

Let’s talk about books

19th May 2013

Travelling is the perfect time to catch up on some reading, but when you’re making space for books in your luggage its good to know the choices you’ve made are good ones. I’ve found a […]