Laurie Colwin is a novelist who liked to cook, and to write about food, which she does even in her novels. She wrote five popular novels, three collections of short stories, and two collections of essays about food and life in the kitchen. She was born in New York, in 1944, and she lived there through most of her adult life. A fact that is significant to her work because her books are set in New York and often, the city is almost a character in its own right. She started writ

The end of a year and the beginning of the next one is a reflective and nostalgic time. I find myself gravitating towards re-reads at this time of year. It was Terry Pratchett last year, this year it's going to be Jane Austen. We've just received a shipment of Penguin cloth-bound classics, and they are all so beautiful. This edition of Sense and Sensibility  is the prettiest that I've yet come across. I grabbed a copy the minute I saw it. This is going to be one of  my first

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.” While I don't agree entirely with this quote by Oscar Wilde, in the sense that there are some books which are brilliant and beautiful which don't lend themselves to re-reading, I'm wholly in sympathy with the spirit of the quote, that re-reading books is a big part of reading because there is much to be discovered in a good book on the second or third read that was perhaps missed e

One of my many bookish pleasures is picking up book one of a three volume or five volume or ten volume series that looks interesting, and settling in, comfortable in the knowledge that I've found a fictional world to inhabit for anywhere from a couple of weeks to a couple of months. There's nothing I like more than finding a bunch of characters that I like, set in a particular time and place, having adventures, and living their lives book after book with a narrative that keep

Every now and then, my sister and I will meet up at the bookshop on a weekday and take a bit of time away from curating and shelving books to talk about what we’ve been reading. We spend time browsing the bookshelves, and picking our next reads. We know the titles that we’ve ordered and shelved, and most of the books we get for the shop, we want to read, but that’s different from deciding which specific book to pick up next. It’s nice to take a step back and look at the books

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Antoine Laurain is a contemporary French writer known for his charming novels which often blend elements of magical realism, humour, and...

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Since they were published in 1865 and 1956 respectively, Alice in Wonderland , and the chronicles of Narnia and have become metaphors...

Food writing is a broad term that includes cook books, restaurant reviews, memoirs about growing up in a particular culture with food...

A roundup of some of the classic travel narratives that are staples on our travel writing shelf

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Denk’s memoir, Every Good Boy Does Fine, is about his early life and influences, his journey as a musician, the perceptive teachings of...

-- by Mehr The Wind In The Willows,  by Kenneth Grahame, is a classic children’s novel, and is based on the bedtime stories Grahame told...

The naturalist Gerald Durrell humorously recounts his adventures with his chaotic and funny family on the Greek island of Corfu.

Jules Verne's adventure novel, Around the World in Eighty Days, is an enduring  classic that has captivated generations of readers....