I was compelled to see Savage House at the cinema because I think The Favourite was the last time a proper eighteenth-century ‘thing’ was o...

 The Guardian recently(ish) published a list of ‘ The 100 Best Novels ’. The way they compiled it was quite interesting, they asked 170 writ...

 (A Mini-Review because I can't think of enough to say to warrant a full-sized one) Meet the Georgians by Robert Peal is very attractiv...

 Pierce Egan’s Life in London is not where the cat and mouse got the names Tom and Jerry from. I was devastated when I found that out, the ...

 I was hoping today’s blog entry would be a review of Pierce Egan’s Life in London , a work really at the cusp of even the long eighteenth c...

 I can’t believe it’s over ten years since I read my first Leon Garfield book. I was thirty at the time, a little older than his marketed ag...

 I knew I wanted to read The Canterbury Tales and I knew that April was the right time to read it (as that’s when it’s set) but when the tim...