Charity Shop Book Haul!

Dear Readers, The other week I really enjoyed reading Em's post about her recent purchases from the charity shop. You can check out the post here... I too had been lucky on a recent second hand book haul and so was inspired to share them with you today - thanks Em! I always talk about …

The Feast

Dear Readers, I have already mentioned this latest read of mine in some of my recent round-up posts, but it is so brilliant that today I am dedicating a whole post to my love for this book! The Feast by Margaret Kennedy, foreword by Cathy Rentzenbrink Cornwall, Midsummer 1947. Pendizack Manor Hotel has just been …

Monthly Wrap-Up: June 2021

Dear Readers, Welcome to my first Monthly Wrap-Up here on my blog! June has just been such an amazing month for reading with me that I was inspired to do a wrap up basically just so I can talk about all the brilliant books I have read even more! So what books have I read …

Venetia

Dear Readers, I really am just loving Georgette Heyer at the moment - despite Venetia being only the second of her novels that I've read so far - I just can't get enough of her! (Read my review of my first Heyer, April Lady, here...) But onto Venetia... Venetia by Georgette Heyer, read by Gemma …

Mid Year Classics Wrap-Up

Dear Readers, Summer Solstice completely passed me by this year! Usually I love to acknowledge the longest day, and celebrate in some small way. I will confess that the seed of this idea was planted back when I was 13 and first read Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle... My imagination was captivated by the …

An Unexpected Journey

Dear Reader, You may have already guessed what book I have just read from the title of this post. But if not, then let me say, reading The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien was as much of an unexpected journey for me as it was for Bilbo. My sister is an avid fan of both Bilbo's …

Comfort Reading – Turning to Austen

The other week I got home from a busy weekend at work and managed to burn my hand on a baking tray whilst trying to take it out of the oven. It really hurt. So I got ready to sit it out, with my hand under the cold tap. I took a chair and my …

Feminist Friday: Jane Austen The Secret Radical

Hello and welcome back to Feminist Friday - I can't believe it is already July! For those of you who are new to my blog (or you need a quick reminder), each month I select a book to read that fits my own feminist criteria, which I then share with you on the second Friday …

Re-Reading Little Women

Hello everyone 🙂 I recently finished yet another re-reading of one of my all-time favourite books - Louisa May Alcott's classic novel, Little Women. First published in 1868 it was wonderfully forward thinking, and remains as fresh as ever 152 years later. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy are four …