Monthly Archives: October 2026

I have some friends who are staying in a village house in Tuscany for ten days. I keep getting wonderful photos on WhatsApp (thank you, Trish Sharkey!) and I get the feeling they’ve strayed into a book or a film. … Continue reading →

The Correspondent had a queue of 53 eager library borrowers at the time I put it on reserve; it was the ‘sleeper hit novel’ of 2025 according to review I read on the Internet. A epistolary novel, no less – … Continue reading →

…in childhood, at three separate times, I died. It was not medical death in the way that it can now be defined. It was the opinion of doctors, humane men, around the bed of an organism under the rough ceiling … Continue reading →