Normally I have a strict paperback policy - after having moved house a thousand times - but this one I want to read NOW!

Fellow book nerds, do you also have a kind of Cooling Off-shelf? It's an impromptu thing. A liminal zone where the books you've finished - especially the ones you found particularly compelling - will stay for a while before they are ready for the bookcase... 📚📚📚

My third Zambreno in a year. In this one, Heroines, I love reading about our "ghostly tutors", all these mad, bad and sad women: Virginia Woolf, Jean Rhys, Sylvia Plath, Madame Bovary - whether they are fictional or real. Zelda Fitzgerald wrote these words from the asylum in 1930.