The book is a deeply satisfying dive into 1930s theatreland, a great mystery to puzzle through and a great read. The book opens with Josephine Tey, murder mystery novelist, (a character based on one of the pseudonyms of Elizabeth Mackintosh) on a train down from the Highlands to London where her hit play Richard of … Continue reading
Little blog, are you ok? It has been so long since your last post you probably thought I had entirely forsaken you. I can only apologise and, to be honest, tell you that I ran off with Neal Stephenson and was then seduced by the Easter sunshine. I’m sorry your writer is so fickle. But, … Continue reading
I bought this book purely for the scurrilous title. At the time I don’t think I even realised that it was a play rather than a novel, but so it is. It is great fun if you like stories about fashionable society in the eighteenth century inventing gossip, testing each other’s nobility and generally wandering … Continue reading
Billy Harrow is an ordinary squidologist working in the Natural History Museum in London when their giant squid vanishes. Before he knows what is happening Billy is being hunted through London by a whole range of cults, people with magical powers and some of the most evil assassins known to humanity who all believe, erroneously, that … Continue reading
This delightful book promises to recommend one thing a day to do in London. Perhaps one year, when I’m not spending all day indoors reading, I will try and do all of the things recommended by the book. It would be a very busy year, and I would have to be very organised. The book … Continue reading
My brother introduced me to Neverwhere when, in his dark student flat, he made me watch the TV series one weekend, with the curtains drawn ‘for maximum effect’. I didn’t actually realise there was a book until I moved in with E and, maybe because I knew the story, I have never got round to … Continue reading
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