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I can’t stop reading Wilkie Collins! I read three novellas a couple of weeks ago & went straight on to another selection of his short s...

Something Fresh is the first in the Blandings series. The main characters in this series are Lord Emsworth, the most absent-minded peer in ...

I had a bumper week last week with some lovely books arriving on the doorstep. It looks as though I've broken my no book buying vow with...

I’ve been reading about royal mistresses this week. I’ve just finished reading Nancy Mitford’s biography of Madame de Pompadour, mistress of...

I have to share these photos of Abby. On warm afternoons, she likes to sleep under the back stairs where she can catch any passing cool bree...

It's a gorgeous early spring day in Melbourne today. I'm not a football fan so the horror of a draw in yesterday's Grand Final b...

The Proper Place is the second novel I’ve read this year by O Douglas. The first was Pink Sugar which I’ve reviewed here . Both books have...