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I am a big fan of Anne Tyler's books so I was very excited when I eventually managed to get a copy of her latest book, Noah's compas...

Who can believe that it has been SIX weeks since I bought a book for myself? When you start doing this, it is hard, but it gets easier, pa...

One of the things about blogging and having spent far more time reading in 2009 than ever before, is that I have been able to pursue authors...

Although mostly it is the content of books that I value and that interests me, my work in the field of rare books has also given me an inter...

An absolute favourite which I discovered earlier this year on the Waitrose website - this is an almondy cake, filled with cherry jam before...

As part of my rather successful attempt to buy less books, I have been making a heroic onslaught on my TBR bookcase - I have removed a coupl...

I'm not quite sure how I encountered the Animal series published by Reaktion books, but it is one that I have been meaning to write abo...

I wanted to read The woman in black for a Halloween read, but unfortunately the copy sent by Vintage got lost in the post. In the end, I e...

Nigella's lemon gems have been on my to-bake list for quite sometime - they are very attractively pictured in her book How to be a domes...

It was a busy weekend reading-wise - I think I read a total of 10 books. So it seems to appropriate that I write about the book which I re...