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Don’t anthrax the otters! Peas in a Podcast #25
We’re backkkk! In ep25, Colin and I talk about Worcestershire pride, what we’d change if we were king for a day, and, of course, otters. Enjoy!...
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Announcing the next club…
Thank you to everyone who made the 1944 Club such a success! As always, it’s wonderful to see the range of titles that come in – I have a lotttt of reviews to read, and it turns out that my week was...
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The Far Cry by Emma Smith – #1949Club
Karen and I are unusually in sync with our club reads this time. Not only did we both visit Beverley Nichols’ All I Could Never Be earlier in the week, we are both finishing with Emma Smith’s The Far...
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The Innocent Traveller by Ethel Wilson – #1949Club
When I was in Canada earlier this year, I was keen to add more books by Ethel Wilson to my shelves. I’d enjoyed her writing for a while, but was fully bowled over by how brilliant The Equations of...
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Parson Austen’s Daughter by Helen Ashton – #1949Club
The cynical part of me wonders whether Helen Ashton had embarked on writing a biography of Jane Austen when she decided it would be easier to make it a novel instead. That’s probably unfair, since she...
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All I Could Never Be by Beverley Nichols – #1949Club
When we planned our timings for the 1949 Club, I hadn’t realised there would be a two-day work retreat… which was wonderful, but has put me very behind in amalgamating reviews, let alone reading them...
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The Sound of Music by Maria von Trapp – #1949Club
Today, I’ll be writing about a story that we all know – though quite a few people I’ve spoken to didn’t realise it was ever a book. As the title of this post has already given away, this is the book...
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A Graveyard To Let by Carter Dickson – #1949Club
Any club year is a good excuse to read a good, old-fashioned murder mystery. In Keswick a few years ago, I bought a handful of a shop’s wide selection of novels by Carter Dickson and John Dickson Carr...
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A Clear Dawn by Winifred Peck – #1949Club
The three women of the McWatt family, Honesty, Mary and their niece, Bridie, sat around the interior grate of their little flat in Napier Crescent, Castleburgh, on a cold December evening in 1945,...
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1949 Club: your reviews!
It’s time again! The 1949 Club is kicking off today – join in with your 1949 reads. As always, any format or language is welcome – the only criterion is publication in 1949. Pop a link to your review...
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StuckinaBook’s Weekend Miscellany
Another week has flown by, and the main thing keeping me going is Celebrity Traitors! I’ve also started my second level of British Sign Language, which is already quite a step up from the first level....
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How is it this hot and it is literal October?? It feels very wrong to still be in a t-shirt, and to have the windows open at home. It continues to be a super busy time, and looks like it might be that...
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#154: Independent Publishers vs Big Name Publishers and Two Virginia Woolf...
Virginia Woolf! Publishers! Welcome to episode 154. https://www.stuckinabook.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/tea-or-books-154.mp3 In the first half, we compare independent publishers and the big-name...
View Article7 Audiobooks I Have Listened To Recently (Ranked!)
It has been AGES and that wasn’t my intention. Life has been busy and tiring of late, with a real mix of good and not-so-good things. Accompanying me through it all have – of course – been audiobooks....
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Opening Night (2026) by Sara Baume
I was in a small independent bookshop in Clapham when I came across Opening Night (2026) by Sara Baume. I have a self-imposed rule that I can’t leave an independent bookshop empty-handed – yes, very...
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StuckinaBook’s Weekend Miscellany
Happy weekend, everyone! I had the day off on Friday (to recover from working at a Christian festival last weekend) and spent most of it reading and relaxing, which was lovely. It also means I’ve...
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What does a pram do if it doesn’t have any wheels? Peas in a Podcast #24!
https://www.stuckinabook.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Aug2026.mp3 It’s episode 24 of the podcast I do with my twin brother, and as always we cover all the most important issues of the day. Enjoyyyy
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The Scheme for Full Employment (2003) by Magnus Mills
I was keen to introduce my book group to Magnus Mills, and also to choose one of his books that I hadn’t read yet – so earlier this year I got them reading The Scheme for Full Employment (2003). Read...
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#153: Do We Care If Writers Exaggerate? and When The Cranes Fly South vs Only...
Liars, Lisa Ridzen, and Debbi Voisey – welcome to episdoe 153! https://www.stuckinabook.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/tea-or-books-153-1.mp3 In the first half, we talk about our expectations of truth...
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Deborah by Esther Kreitman
For Women in Translation month, I pulled Deborah (1936) by Esther Kreitman, translated from Yiddish by her son, Maurice Carr, in the 1940s. It was a gift from a Virago-loving friend called Alex back...
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