Ramona by Beverly Cleary
F O R K I D S Last lockdown was *all* about Harry Potter for my eldest (she’s seven). This lockdown is still all about Harry — but mainly in @lego form as we have bee
The Decameron, Letters Of Vincent Van Gogh, Dangerous Liaisons & The Book Of A Courtier
Classical Offerings with a modern twist. My favourite classics always remind me that people are intrinsically the same. We live utterly different lives from those hundreds of years
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
F R I D A Y F A V O U R I T E A copy is always by my bed (note the torrid state of my first version). Initially frustrating — too many Henrys and ambiguity in dialogue, I persist
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
R E V I E W — H A M N E T Hamnet, Oh Hamnet, you absolute beaut of a book — inside and out. I am a reader who sometimes struggles with fictional accounts of real people as I of