Doors opening wherever she turned
Alan Bennett was born in Leeds and I liked this quotation chalked on a board in a café there.  It's...
Why read literature?
‘Why read literature? Because it enriches life in ways that nothing else quite can. It makes us more human.’
I'm...
Podcast review – Adam Nicolson’s Sea Room
Listening time: 19 minutes. Having inherited, at the age of 21, the Shiants, three small islands east of...
Fairy Tales and Legends of the World
On the cusp of a new decade, I've turned some new year resolutions into ten-year readolutions. One...
Worse than cocaine
If you were traversing the Soviet Union it was better to be caught with a kilo of cocaine than a...
Reading as grand occasion
This is Machiavelli and I like the way he treats reading as a majestic occasion, leaving aside his working clothes...
Revisiting The Hobbit
The Hobbit is the first major book of which I have a conscious memory. Â Probably four or five years...
Now we are six
As we approach the 6th birthday of WritingRedux, I've cast my mind back to the year I turned six and...
Riding the spine of a book
The book as a kind of flying broomstick or galloping horse taking the boy into story land.
The Mermaid & the Red Candle
As you may recall, in preparing for a new decade of life, I made a resolution to...
How to read a book in a language you don’t know (I)
When Luiz went to Brazil recently, I gave him a copy of a Caroline story for his two great-nieces. Most...
The magic of books
A beautiful description of what makes books so magical. May all yours be capacious of promise, even as...
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