Check out my groovy Hemingway.

My current read doesn‘t seem to exist...

Happy New Year from me and Crow.

“This is not a travel guide but an elegy.”

Wacky.

Sounds like my kind of book.

‘All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know.”

Charming. Who‘s your favourite Hemingway wife? I‘m Team Martha.

Exquisite. The story of Antigone brought bang up to date.

Magnificent.

This was the sound of pain forgetting itself through song.

This is a glorious read - in conversation with the author this week in Whitstable.

Happy Christmas to me.

I have fallen in love with a colour.

This just came in the post. Dystopia in Cornwall? Sounds good.

More twists than you'd find in a box of Red Vines.

Yesssssssss.

We never recover what was.... This book is magnificent.

Just received this from River Run Books. Can't wait to rediscover 99 authors!

Piercing, wry and raw. Wonderful.

Took me a few tries to get into this, but well in now. Go, Naomi!

I hold my honey and I store my bread... Strange and wonderful.

Wise, warm, life-affirming.

Second time starting this book. Sometimes we're not the right reader for a book; this time, I am.

Yesterday's charity bookshop haul. 📚🍾

Sitting with Joan Didion in the sun.

Editorial euphemisms - oh my. The Forest for the Trees tells it like it is.

But first, must finish this moving memoir on grief, trauma, and horses. Even if horses aren't 'your thing' I recommend it for Clover's honesty and great big heart.

Finished my own book - now I get to read!

Look at this beauty. Kate Mayfield's new novel, The Parentations, out March 2018 from Point Blank/One World.

Stunning.

A few additions to the towering summer reading TBR.

Reading this. Hot nights need short, taut books.

Voted for by mad hatters.

Goal.

Stalk your demons.

Every time I dip into this, I find just what I'm looking for. Jane, you rock.

Two stories of south London, interwoven. Two eras, two characters haunting one another. Michele Roberts newest is a stunner: immersive, moving, angry. I interviewed her yesterday and found her witty, funny, and exceedingly generous.

"I go on building paper houses. Scrunching them up then putting them into my pocket. I go on walking the London streets, feeling them flow through and around me like streams of words."

Shortlisted for the Booker in 1992, Daughters of the House is rich with family secrets, sibling rivalry, and mysterious visions that may - or may not - be saints. At yesterday's event, Michele signed my copy!

First on my list of Michele Roberts reading, in anticipation of interviewing her for WhitLit, the Whitstable Literary Festival.

Dark. Brutal. Magnificent.

Quoth the puppy, "Nevermore."

And did you all tell me how good this is? I'm sure @Liberty did, but - seriously - True Grit is a corker.

National puppy day? I'm in. Here's Louie with Blue Dog. Next time, will snap him with some books.

Over on Twitter, Virago is celebrating #books for change and essential women's writing. Today's book that changed my life? Definitely, The Chalice and the Blade.

This looks good. But I'll pretty much pick up any book with witch in the title...

How many stars can I give to Moby-Dick? All the stars. Every one of them. Such dazzling wordplay, gorgeous characters, such heart. I could read it again, right now. Full marks to The Pigeonhole for providing such beautiful text, a stave a day.

“There she blows!—there she blows! A hump like a snow-hill! It is Moby Dick!” Penultimate Stave of my January reading. Never want it to end!