Novels & Biogs
What to read by the pool this summer: part 2
Here's part two of our essentail summer reading list, let us know if you have any more favourites, let us know about them?
The Hand That First Held Mine – Maggie O'Farrell
We loved Maggie O'Farrell's The Vanishing Act of Esme… Read More
What to read by the pool this summer: part 1
As Amanda already mentioned we are lucky enough to both be away on holiday for three weeks, Amanda in Italy and me in America. Of course we are still blogging and in between doing usual holiday things, we will no… Read More
One Day by David Nicholls
Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada
A pile of books
There is something special about a pile of new books, the anticipation and excitement of knowing you will be lost in another time or place every time you pick it up and the simple pleasure of a stolen hour on your own,… Read More
The Women’s Room by Marilyn French
When we came up with the idea of the Women’s Room, there was never any dispute about what we were aiming to do, who our readers were or what we were going to write about. We mulled the idea over… Read More
We love: Persephone Books
This summer we discovered an amazing publishing house cum book shop in Londons Lambs Conduit Street. Persephone Books prints “mainly neglected fiction and non-fiction by women, for women and about women”.
Nicola Beauman, who founded and still runs the company,… Read More