Tag: Penelope Lively

  • March 2025

    Near the top of one of the floor to ceiling bookshelves in my bedroom is the Penelope Lively section. These shelves will always remind me of lockdown times when I was compulsively buying books and then manically reading them. The piles on my bedside table…and on the floor…became impossibly vertiginous and soon two tall bookcases […]

  • Writing to Authors

    Why would one write to an author I wonder. To ask questions maybe or to express strong opinions, positive or negative. Presumably some writers are overwhelmed with sackfuls of (probably) fan mail whilst others are longing for the postman to stop at their door. Maybe though they are happy to be left alone; not all […]