Elizabeth Baines

Catching up on recent literary events: On Sunday I went to Carol Ann Duffy's 'Shore to Shore' tour of poets at Caernarfon...

Our main reaction to this, Hemingway's now classic second novel (suggested by Ann), was that it was difficult to know how to read it f...

My domain name is working again, thank goodness. It's now possible to get through again on elizabethbaines.com

I've discovered that my web domain has been down for about a week, so anyone trying to access my site through elizabethbaines.com won...

Warning: plot spoil. This short 1978 novel, set in 1959-60, about a widow who opens a bookshop in the fictional East Anglian seaside tow...

I'm having a nice couple of days: hot on the heels of the review in Confingo ,  here's another really great review of Used to Be,...

There'a a lovely review of Used to Be in the new issue of the Manchester-based magazine Confingo . Confingo is an extremely smartly-p...

Warning: plot spoil. This 1941 novel, Trevor's suggestion, features thirty-four-year-old George Harvey Bone who is in the grip of an...

Here's a great new review of Used to Be in the Wales Arts Review - very insightful in terms of my basic themes and preoccupations. I...

It's that time of year again - the longlist is announced for the Edge Hill prize for a single-author collection of stories. This ye...

John suggested this novel set in an Irish border town in the early 60s, which begins, 'When I was a young lad twenty or thirty or forty ...

It's a long time since we held the discussion of this book, Jenny's choice, and in the meantime my head has been stuffed with my W...

At last I reached the end of the latest draft of my wip - the typing up of it, that is. (I now have to read through the typescript and ed...

WIP progress report: I have been sitting still for so long now that I have a sore knee - argh! And because of that, and because I'm so n...

Another review of Used to Be to bring me back to my blog in spite of the demands of the WIP. Helen Walters writes a lovely response to the ...

Still stuck like glue to my manuscript, so still not blogging properly, but in the meantime here's another nice review for Used to Be, t...

Pretty thrilled with this review of Used to Be on Book Muse. It's short, but then it's not how much you say but what you say: B...

Tim Love's review of Used to Be, based on his previous blog notes, is on Everybody's Reviewing. He begins: The Mandaeans of s...

Before Christmas, on the publication of Used to Be, Deborah Grace came to interview me for the Didsbury Community Index magazine. She asked ...

The New Year (well, the working New Year) kicks off for me with a great review of Used to Be on the A Life in Books blog. The poet Gillian...