Elizabeth Baines

Another fabulous volume in the series of Fashion sourcebooks by Emmanuelle Dirix from Goodman Fiell, edited by Charlotte Fiell. As in t...

I bought this book in the late nineties when it was first in paperback, but had somehow never got around to opening it, and when, due to the...

I've recently been concentrating on short stories again, and I'm delighted to say that two are to be published in anthologies from t...

Ann suggested this 1958 novel because her interest had been aroused by Chinua Achebe's recent death, and she remembered that it had on...

Trevor suggested this book, the satirical depiction of life in Hungary towards the end of the war and under Soviet rule up to the 1956 revol...

So I had a break from writing and spent a couple of days in London, as I was delighted to be taking part in a Salt panel discussion at the ...

Funny how the different things you write can take different lengths of times, however similar they are in word count. Three weeks ago I had ...

This is my first chance to write about the launch last week of Rosie Garland's The Palace of Curiosities , which won the Myslexia compet...

Warning: plot spoiler. Mark suggested this book which he said he really admired, considering it a truly great book:  a novel set, like J...

Once again other commitments have kept me from writing up the reading group report, and once again, I'm afraid, I have to rack my brains...

I wasn't at the last meeting when the reading group discussed Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, the well-known and acclaimed auto...