Elizabeth Baines

Warning: plot spoiler (maybe). Trevor suggested this book in which widowed and middle-aged Japanese narrator Etsuko, now living in Engla...

 Of course you can bank on bad weather if you plan an outdoor event. The Manchester Book Market, run by Comma Press 's Ra Page, was h...

I've recently been moaning about the lottery of competitions, but of course I'm thrilled whenever I get anywhere in one. Mind you,...

I'm in Wales at the moment. I've been working on a short story and trying to write a review but I've been very distracted - n...

Having just discussed Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night with the reading group ( yesterday's post ) and considered the reasons that...

When John first suggested this book, the story of the disintegration of brilliant psychiatrist Dick Diver, married to wealthy psychiatric pa...

 And here is The Birth Machine on its Fiction shelves. (See why I love it?): I nipped over to Bath from Bristol on Friday. I'd ...

 Just back from a weekend in Bristol where John and I went for the fabulous launch of a new book by my very good writing friend Tania Hers...

Funny how sometimes you can't write straight away about books that have had a deep impression on you - you need time to get to grips w...

Jo suggested this novel narrated by 38-year-old Freddie Montgomery, waiting to be tried for the murder of a maid who happened to appear in...

Some bits and bobs - which is about all I can manage at the moment: I've had a lousy cold for over a week and am feeling pretty washe...

A great thing about the web is the way books can go on getting reviews long after publication. To my delight yesterday, four and a half year...

Today I’m delighted to host Vanessa Gebbie who’s on a blog tour to celebrate the paperback publication of her novel, The Coward’s T...

This meeting was another near-fight. Jenny chose this iconic early-nineties novel about a group of three educated late-twenties escapees...