Diary
A trip to the supermarché at the beginning of our French month yielded many of the necessary things one also…
Frank Matcham
Go inside the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham, preferably when it is empty. Look round. Look up. And there it is, with…
A bookseller’s duty
To my mind, a bookshop is like a library — the only difference is that you buy the books, you…
A bookseller’s duty
To my mind, a bookshop is like a library — the only difference is that you buy the books, you…
A bookseller’s duty
To my mind, a bookshop is like a library — the only difference is that you buy the books, you…
Diary
February Fill-Dyke. But north Norfolk is dry, at least in terms of rain. Instead we have coastal flooding. Three years…
Diary
February Fill-Dyke. But north Norfolk is dry, at least in terms of rain. Instead we have coastal flooding. Three years…
TB or not to be
If you are 70-plus, the shadow of TB will have hung over your childhood and youth, as it did mine,…
The perfect holiday cottage
‘Farm cottage available, Dorset. Long or short let. £5 per week.’ I was looking for a writing bolthole, so I…
Diary
Have you ever set your face against a book? This year sees Charlotte Brontë’s bicentenary and the novelist Tracy Chevalier…
The Boy on the Hillside
Listen to Susan Hill read The Boy on the Hillside: [audioboo url=”https://audioboo.fm/boos/1816403-susan-hill-reads-the-boy-on-the-hillside”][/audioboo] The boy, Seth, stirred in his sleep. ‘Cold…’…
The Boy on the Hillside
Listen to Susan Hill read The Boy on the Hillside: [audioboo url=”https://audioboo.fm/boos/1816403-susan-hill-reads-the-boy-on-the-hillside”][/audioboo] The boy, Seth, stirred in his sleep. ‘Cold…’…