mrs miniver's daughter

I'm not a big fan of Angela Thirkell - too smugly English upper-middle-class to be taken except very occasionally in small doses ......

I didn't get round to mentioning Emlyn Williams' long-forgotten 1950s play Accolade when I saw it a couple of weeks ago, but it ...

Now I know that a new decluttering guru is as seductive as a new diet. You always start out by thinking this time it really will work. T...

It could be that I'm the wrong reader because I've never really cared for short stories. They're too short. You can't ge...

I thought I couldn't imagine any Mapp and Lucia other than Prunella Scales and Geraldine McEwan - but, on the strength of the first...

Anyone else trying this book quiz?   I'm stuck with six to go ... No, that's five to go, just had a brainwave!

I'm enjoying this very much, especially with Alan Bennett's voice rumbling through it and admitting that he doesn't understan...