Books

Large Dog Eats Anything Loves Children

It’s always fun when a tiresome book about the rules of the English language gets debunked and when some clever…

4 years ago

Ice

I was first drawn to Anna Kavan’s writing through her collection of wartime stories I Am Lazarus (1945) - the…

4 years ago

Anna and Gertrude

“I am not interested in complicated things nor in the commonplace, I like to paint simple things that are a…

4 years ago

All Our Yesterdays with the #1936Club

There was a period in the early 1960s when my parents had a television (in those days you rented) and…

4 years ago

Bertie Wooster v. Christopher Robin

P.G.Wodehouse and A.A. Milne were the same age and in 1941 they were both close to 60. As young men…

4 years ago

What ho! George Orwell and Cancel Culture

Few things in this war have been more morally disgusting than the present hunt after traitors and Quislings. At best…

4 years ago

The Learners’ Manifesto from Frank Smith

A six-point manifesto from psycholinguist Frank Smith - another of those items found in the basement. I must have prepared…

4 years ago

#6Degrees From the Gulf of Siam to Pianosa via Anglesey

 "Phosphorescence is a process in which energy absorbed by a substance is released relatively slowly in the form of light.…

4 years ago

From Hamnet to The Water Dancer in Six Moves #6Degrees

One book leads to another. Six Degrees of Separation comes via Kate at Books Are My Favourite and Best. Readers…

4 years ago

Judy Blume to W. B. Yeats

It's that time of the month - #6degrees again. Read about it here and join in.  Play the animation and…

4 years ago