Nigeness

I'm afraid I'm off gallivanting again - this time to the Cotentin Peninsula for a few days. I shall be on the Poole-Chergourg ferry ...

In this glorious Indian Summer weather, the spiders are making merry. I'm sure we haven't had such abundance and diversity in years....

Periodically, over the years, several people have urged me to read the novels of Sylvia Townsend Warner . Somehow I never got round to it - ...

So, following Mary's tip (see below under 'Launching'), I made my way to Norbury - no, not the South London suburb - and duly fo...

For the next few days I'm going to be in Derbyshire, where my cousin is launching her new novel, The Green Table - details here - into ...

The other evening, as I reached for a favourite CD of Dvorak string quartets (12 and 13, played by the Lindsays), it occurred to me that, as...

I'm wondering if anyone out there has any suggestions for books to give to a bright and bookish about-to-be 16-year-old girl (my great-n...