Elizabeth at the Cardiff Public Library

My Thoughts on Reading the First Fifteen Chapters: In the fairy world of Harley Street, London, where Titania curls up, asleep on t...

Sent by her employment agency to the home of Miss LaFosse, a flighty night club singer in 1930s London, Miss Pettigrew finds, not the g...

Thomas C. Foster has indeed written a "lively and entertaining guide to reading between the lines," as the subtitle of his...

All I knew about Anne Morrow Lindbergh before reading Gift from the Sea was that she was the wife of Charles Lindbergh the aviator, and...

This is a story that features in virtually every winter-on-the-prairie novel ever written: caught in a blinding blizzard, a character t...

Louis Hémon, a Frenchman, visited Canada and lived and worked among the Francophone peasants ( les habitants ) of the Lac-St-Jean region ...

  The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge, first published in 1974, was one of five of her books to make it to the Booker shor...

I know of Colm Tóibín more for his presence on the judging panel at the Giller Prize a few years ago than for his work.  I lucked upon...

When I saw this book on the shelf at the public library my interest was piqued.  I was raised by parents who believed in the power of b...

T hese roles which, being neither those of Hero nor Heroine, Confidante nor Villan, but which were none the less essential to bring abo...

  Life is change, my dear, so we might as well enjoy it, don't you think? (63) About a month ago I finally placed all the Giller ...

After reading Good Behaviour by Molly Keane earlier this month, I was thrilled to see that my library has most of Molly Keane's boo...

2 a.m. insomnia and none in the stack of half-perused books on the floor by my bed would suffice. Off I trundled to scour the shelves for ...

Having never read any of Dervla Murphy's writing before picking up her autobiography at the library last week, I only knew that she wro...