mrs miniver's daughter

What an irresistible cover! This has been my 'handbag book' for the last week or so; each diary extract is just long enough to rea...

I was too hot - too tired - not in the mood - I thought it sounded bonkers and couldn't remember why I wanted to go in the first place...

You don't expect an audience of millennials for a Terence Rattigan play ... but last night the average age was about 87! Fine by me, a...

Having spent yesterday with my head down in Lincoln in the Bardo - so brilliant, I've nearly finished it  I couldn't help seeing t...

I normally find over-hyped, post-modern, best-selling novels all too easy to resist and I carted this home from the library yesterday, bal...

I spent yesterday afternoon buried in a deep, squishy armchair at Soho House (a bit too squishy, I needed four cushions to prop myself up)...

I realised that I know almost nothing about the Armenian genocide in the last days of the Ottoman empire, a massacre that Turkey refuses...