mrs miniver's daughter

If books were chocolate, the last one I read - Stoner - would be three crisp, snappy squares of bitter Valrhona to be nibbled on and savo...

It started when a couple of people came up to me on the beach last weekend - then somebody else mentioned it as I wandered past the beach...

Getting next year's WWI commemorations off to an early start, I enjoyed BBC2's drama The Wipers Times, coming soon, based on the ...

Sue has been writing about lovely, colourful Ladybird Books which set me reminiscing about the reading books we had when I was at scho...

It's many, many years since I read Bonjour Tristesse when I was a student, very taken with the idea of international best-sellers writ...

With two minutes to choose a book as I ran for a bus that I really didn't want to miss yesterday morning, I grabbed one that coul...

The Music Lesson, Royal Collection  It was a lovely end to the day to stroll into the National Gallery at 8pm and happen upon a conce...