As a starting point for a chain of connections #sixdegrees The Turn of the Screw has everything. Is it a…
Long before the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, bookish teens had Iris Murdoch. As the poet Philip Larkin…
I've just read Back To My Beginnings by Paddy Staplehurst. It's a memoir of growing up in St. Etheldreda's in…
A friend is reading Steven Johnson's The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science,…
There I was I was minding my own business drinking an early morning cuppa in isolation, socially distanced and hunkered…
So many parallels between our current pandemic and the plague that swept through London in 1665, at least as described…
They say the war is over. But water still Comes bloody from the taps. from 'Redeployment,' Howard Nemerov In April…
This is actually a story about books but somehow the schools took over. It does start with the books -…
Always fun to find half-remembered books. One bonus of this decluttering lark is that you find so many of them.…
Scooterons-nous vite. It's Back to School with Angela Brazil Long before Harry Potter - and indeed long before all those…