Katie Who Can Read

Apologies that this blog went silent after about the first week of the rereadathon. I've been keeping up my rereading, fitting it aro...

It has long been suspected that although his books are universally classified as “comic fantasy,” Sir Terry Pratchett doesn’t really writ...

My best friend, Judith, is only two months older than me, but when we were at school, she was in the year above me. This proved very useful ...

I first encountered Charlotte Bronte as a pre-teen, when for some reason or other I watched the Lowood scenes in rehearsal at the local thea...

Upper-class Margaret Prior, after recovering from a long illness, takes on a position as “Lady Visitor” to the women’s wards at Millbank P...

It's the beginning of December, and for the first time I can remember at this time of year, there is a thick layer of snow on the groun...