As a rule, I do not use the word unputdownable. There are so many other, better ways to describe a good book: gripping, hypnotising,...

As I type this, I am lounging, Paolina Borghese-like, on the counter next to the window in my kitchen, in my flat, on the highest floor...

Inis, a rocky spit of land off the coast of Ireland , is a place frozen in time, where the men brave the sea to feed their families and...

Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to...

Tonight I had brisket for the first time in my life. Being a huge fan of the first two seasons of Amy Sherman Palladino’s The Marvelous...

Like this week. I must admit I have not been my most enthusiastic self since October, when I started my MPhil in Classics at the...

As we all know, the good thing about being ill is that you can watch all the tv you want without feeling guilty. And you do watch it - or...

Having hit that point in my work schedule where my brain is only capable of watching romcoms for any extended period of time, today I...

This blog started on Tumblr; it took me eight months and several people I had to block to realise that that was not a good idea. It may...

“Happiness is not complete without a goat playing the violin”: I found the above translation of this quote from ‘Notting Hill’ as I was...

I was going to start this blog with an excursus of my life as keeper of a diary, and maybe I will write about my life as the keeper of a...

I just came back from a conversation organised by Blackwell’s between Philip Pullman and Kathrine Rundall at the Sheldonian theatre. I am...

Last week I watched ‘Out of Africa’. I read the book when I was around fifteen, I think, so (seven years later!) I do not remember much...