When I said last week that nothing dates faster than a political book that wasn’t strictly…
Victoria Blake
TALES FROM THE BOOK TRADE AGAIN
Those of you who have been with me from the beginning with these Tales of the…
EXTRA TALES FROM THE BOOK TRADE
My favourite book came into the shop this week in a hard back version I’d never…
SIGNIFICANT TALES FROM THE BOOK TRADE
In the course of sorting through my books I discovered I actually own a book by…
FURTHER TALES OF THE BOOK TRADE
Since receiving my royalty statement I have been re-reading The Writer’s Book of Hope by Ralph…
MORE TALES FROM THE BOOK TRADE
Waste Lands are selling like hot cakes. There has been a BBC 4 documentary on T.S.…
TALES FROM THE BOOK TRADE
I work in a charity second hand bookshop once a week. This was my day. The…
CULTURAL ROUND UP: PAT BARKER, AGNES VARDA &JR, ALAN BENNETT AND THE OCEANIA EXHIBITION
A book, a film, a play and an exhibition. First off a book… Barker is one…
Q&A with Joy Rhoades @JoyRhoades1 author of #WoolgrowersCompanion
The Woolgrower’s Companion is a wonderful book written by Joy Rhoades, set in 1945 on a…
A WORLD OF WOMEN WRITERS #2
Remind me never to offer a prize on this blog ever again. Having written a blog…
Q&A with THE FUSSY LIBRARIAN
I had a lovely time answering questions from The Fussy Librarian. If you want to know…
A WORLD OF WOMEN WRITERS
In the nineties I worked at the Silver Moon Women’s Bookshop on the Charing Cross Road…
LOVE LETTERS
Love letters straight from the past … Just reading a couple makes me feel odd;…
THE STORY OF FERDINAND
What makes a classic children’s book? Perhaps the most obvious sign is that a book you…
JIGSAW PUZZLES AND WRITING
I used to do jigsaw puzzles with my mother when I was a child and recently…
“THE BLOSSOMEST BLOSSOM”
So Spring arrived finally and wasn’t that a relief! And obviously I went out into the…