Elizabeth Baines

Here's a very lively YouTube review by Katy Lumsden of the Unthank anthology Red Room: New Stories Inspired by the Brontes which was ...

I suggested this book as a classic I had never read even though I found brilliant the film Cabaret, which is based on a section from it. I...

Googling your own name is a well known as an act of vanity, but writers do it also to try and gauge responses to their work (it's always...

Through my door not so long ago: the latest beautifully produced chapbooks of individual stories from Nicholas Royle's Nightjar ...

 Warning: plot spoil. Our discussion of this book, suggested by Clare, centred on whether or not it works as a thriller, and therefore it ...

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 ...