Libraries gave us power – Manic Street Preachers So far in this occasional series I’ve talked about how George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four …
There could be many potential answers to the question, ‘What is Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook about?’ Almost like a literary Rorschach …
Despite the almost universal outpouring of joy over Helen Sedgwick’s tale of love and loss across the centuries and generations of a …
A booklover departs As if life wasn’t feeling precarious enough at present, one day all your prized possessions will become future charity shop …
Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers was given to me by a friend who understands I have a fixation on …
Children have a fixation with the downright gruesome. I found this out when I recently re-discovered a picture book by Heinrich Hoffman …
I read over one hundred books in 2016 and I must confess I did feel secretly smug. I had written the titles …
Against a backdrop of everything being dreadful in the world beyond the book in front of my nose, it feels a bit …
Don’t you dare give me an ash tray for Christmas! …were the words from my mum when I told her I was …
Not counting the obvious friends and family, the one thing I miss most when away from Liverpool is a little taste of home. …
A few years ago, ten million hardbacks celebrated a book depository in Liverpool. A place in a local shopping centre designated solely for …
