Staircase Wit

This is a gently affectionate and often amusing memoir of a Victorian childhood from an unusual perspective – Gwen Raverat was a granddaught...

It is Christmas Eve, and Nancy and Plum are alone at Mrs. Monday’s Boarding Home in so-called Heavenly Valley, while Mrs. M, her spoiled nie...

The Far Country was published in 1952 and provides a snapshot, albeit a depressing one, of post-war Britain, which made it a good choice fo...

It’s time for the 1952 Club, featuring books published that year and hosted this week by Simon at Stuck in a Book and Karen at Kaggsy’s Boo...

Spell the Month in Books is hosted by Jana at  Reviews From the Stacks . Her theme for April is animals on the cover or in the title.

WWW Wednesday is hosted by Taking on a World of Words . The Three Ws are: What are you currently reading? What did you recently finish readi...

Dominic Salt is the caretaker of Shearwater, a remote island near Antarctica where he lives with his three children, Raff, Fen, and Orly. T...

It’s not every book that starts with a heroine planning to commit suicide and manages to make the situation quite humorous - albeit dark hum...