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R.C. Sherriff’s wonderful autobiography
R.C. Sherriff has had something of a renaissance in the past few years, thanks to the good people at Persephone Books. They’ve published A Fortnight in September, Greengates, and The Hopkins...
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StuckinaBook’s Weekend Miscellany
Happy weekend one and all. I will be spending some of my Saturday at Charlbury Old Shed, which I heartily recommend to anybody visiting Oxfordshire. There’s cake AND donkeys (and other things, but...
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Tea or Books? #119: Amateur Sleuths or Professional Detectives? and Women...
Miriam Toews, Olga Tokarczuk and detective fiction – welcome to episode 119! https://www.stuckinabook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/tea-or-books-119.mp3 In the first half of this episode, we discuss...
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Mrs Hart’s Marriage Bureau by Sheena Wilkinson
I mentioned Mrs Hart’s Marriage Bureau is a recent weekend miscellany, and I might have mentioned there that I tend to say no to offers of review copies nowadays. I realised years ago that I wanted to...
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StuckinaBook’s Weekend Miscellany
It’s the weekend, and I’ll be preparing for my first ever sermon/talk at my church – that I’m giving in a couple of weeks, on Jesus healing a blind man in John 9. I’ve done talks in other places, and...
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Cactus by Ethel Mannin
After reading Rolling in the Dew, I was keen to read more of Ethel Mannin’s fiction – particularly something in a non-satirical mode. I wondered if something she wrote could be suitable for the...
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One Year’s Time by Angela Milne (British Library Women Writers)
I’m delighted that One Year’s Time by Angela Milne has been out for a month now, and I realise I’ve mentioned it a few times but haven’t ever actually written a review of it. I’ve only seen one or two...
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StuckinaBook’s Weekend Miscellany
Happy weekend, everyone! I’ve spent much of this week championing Tove Jansson in an online poll of NYRB Classics authors, and I’m delighted to say that she won the overall competition – even if it did...
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Join me at an online Sally on the Rocks event (Tues 29th)
Throughout the year, Brad at Neglected Books has been running a series of (free) online events highlighting neglected books that have been reprinted by various different reprint publishers. I’m...
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In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
Sorry I’ve been quiet recently – I got Covid, and while it wasn’t a bad bout of it, I have been quite low on energy since and have spent my evenings watching TV rather than blogging. But I’m back with...
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All Roads Lead To Austen by Amy Elizabeth Smart
I can’t remember where I first heard about All Roads Lead To Austen (2012) by Amy Elizabeth Smart – but it certainly ended up on my wishlist at some point, and my parents kindly gave it to me for...
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Tea or Books? #120: Travel Inspiration from Fiction or Non-Fiction? and The...
D.E. Stevenson, Eva Ibbotson, travel inspo – welcome to episode 120! https://www.stuckinabook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/tea-or-books-120.mp3 We have our first returning guest – the wonderful...
View ArticleIt’s not a weekend, but here’s a miscellany…
I’m going to take a blogging break while I go on holiday (again, burglars, someone is looking after my cat so it’s no good trying to break in) – before I go, I’ll leave you with a few bits and pieces:...
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Canada: the books I bought, and why
I am now back from two jam-packed, sunny, lovely weeks in Canada. Naturally I did not see all of Canada in that time, but my brother and I spent a week in Vancouver and a week in Toronto – both of...
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Love and Salt Water by Ethel Wilson #SpinsterSeptember
I haven’t actually read very much of the book I had decided to read for Spinster September – a brilliant brainchild of Nora aka pear.jelly – but one of the other books I was reading also qualifies....
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Road Ends by Mary Lawson
Reader, I am distraught. I have read all the Mary Lawson novels there are to read – which, admittedly, is only four. Given that there are usually long gaps between them, it will probably be a while...
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StuckinaBook’s Weekend Miscellany
First things first – your reminder that the 1962 Club is coming up around the corner! Join in a week of reading books published in 1962 and share your thoughts wherever you share bookish thoughts...
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Unnecessary Rankings! Barbara Comyns
I’m back with two of my favourite things – ranking, and needlessness! I have lots of fun with this occasional series of ranking the works of authors I’ve read a fair bit by – and by seeing how much...
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Six Degrees of Separation: from I Capture the Castle to William
Whenever the Six Degrees of Separation tag starts with a book I’ve read, I try to join in – and this month’s starts with a favourite, Dodie Smith’s I Capture the Castle. Find out more about the tag at...
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Tea or Books? #121: Should Books Have A Message? and Two Jane Gardam Novels
Jane Gardam and messages in books – welcome to episode 121! https://www.stuckinabook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tea-or-books-121.mp3 In the first half of the episode, Rachel and I discuss whether...
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