mrs miniver's daughter

Light romantic fiction isn't my thing, but it seems so much more appealing when it was published in 1947, and you can think of it as...

Did you ever see the same book in three more different covers and, sure enough, my charity shop find is the least attractive one a...

Betty and William Jacklin , 1942, Private Collection  There are bloggers who keep calm and carry on through hot weather and there are ot...

After a hot and fractious day, a cool bath, clinking ice in a glass of lavender lemonade, and an (air-conditioned) evening listen...

I can still remember the mind-blowing impact, when I was an idealistic 18-year-old, of reading Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitari...

An excellent documentary here  about Don McCullin , one of the greatest photographers of the 20th century; unfortunately, it is also an obi...

If only there was an award for the best prize marrows and spuds on the operatic stage ...  Picture quality isn't great (you...