Katie Who Can Read

It is England at the beginning of the nineteenth century: the time of King George III, and the Napoleonic Wars. And yet it is not quite ...

When Ashby, Captain of the Wayfarer, takes on a new clerk, not all of the crew think he's made the right decision. Rosemary is yo...

Sofia has recently decided to commit to a life of celibacy. Her sister is due to get married, one of her best friends is about to mar...

  This isn't your  past any more. Not exactly. It's a  past. And up there is a  future. It might be your future. But it might n...

Maud gets muddled about all sorts of things these days, but she is sure of one thing: Elizabeth is missing. In her obsession to find ...

It was a ridiculous sequence of events that led to me almost dying, and an even more ridiculous sequence that led to me surviving.  If...

Victoria McQueen has a talent for finding things. As a little girl, she cycled across the Shorter Way Bridge near her home, to come out m...

I'm really cheating here, because this was The Broke and the Bookish's top ten for last week, but I was away from my computer for a ...

For several years now, I've had a troubling vision of a future where the physical world is entirely forsaken in favour of twenty-four-ho...

This is going to be a looooong one. Spoilers for the film, but not later on in the book. It's always risky adapting a beloved film for ...

Well, there was only going to be one choice of film for today's Movie Monday review, wasn't there?  It's been eleven years si...

Pottermania has been abounding in the last couple of weeks with the run-up to the final film in the series, which premiered in London on Thu...