My sixth and final day at Hay Festival 2018.
Features
Hay Happenings #5
Snap happy at Hay!
Hay Happenings #4
A few pictures from my fourth day at Hay.
Hay Happenings #3
A full Hay day!
Hay Happenings #2
A hasty dispatch to keep you apprised of my second day at Hay.
Hay Happenings #1
My first brief update from Hay Festival 2018.
HAY FESTIVAL 2018
‘Twas the night before Hay… This year I will join the throng of Hay-goers heading for Britain’s most famous book festival – an event famously described by Bill Clinton as “The Woodstock of the mind”!
My One-Hundred-Book Library
The challenge of creating a zero-sum book collection. Can you create a one-hundred-book library?
Remembering Amy Levy
It is 130 years since the publication of Reuben Sachs by Amy Levy, a novel about the unfulfilled lives of Victorian women. We look back at the short but controversial life of its author.
My Blog’s Name in Books
Everyone in the book blogging community seems to be jumping on the My Blog’s Name in Books bandwagon, so why not me, too?
International Dylan Thomas Day
In the second of our occasional features about Wales to be posted in the run-up to Dewithon 2019, we look forward to International Dylan Thomas Day on 14th May, and look back at a memorable performance from 2003.
Booket Not Bucket, If You Please!
This is a literary wish-list, but absolutely not, in any way, shape or form a book bucket list!
The Keats-Shelley Memorial House
Memories of a remarkable visit to the Keats-Shelley House in Rome, almost 18 years ago.
How to Read a Novel: Week #4
I have completed the fourth and final week of my online course, How to Read a Novel, in which we turned our attention to setting.
How to Read a Novel: Week #3
So ends week three of How to Read a Novel, the month-long online course I’m taking courtesy of FutureLearn and the University of Edinburgh.
How to Read a Novel: Week #2
I’ve successfully completed the second week of my free online course, How to Read a Novel, in which we examined characterisation.
How to Read a Novel: Week #1
I have completed the first week of my free online course, How to Read a Novel, and I’m relieved to report that I’m making good progress.
How to Read a Novel
Follow my progress as I take part in a four week online course with the University of Edinburgh on How to Read a Novel.
Books Before the Blog
This is the start of an occasional feature in which I highlight a small selection of books that I read and enjoyed at some point before publishing this blog.
Amazon’s 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime Tag
This is a first! Brittany, a fellow book critic over at Perfectly Tolerable, has picked me, along with several others, to take part in her book tag.