To the Manor Born

All things bright and beautiful Back we go down memory lane... Dramatis Personae:  Our parents, who got married soon after the war and had t...

Someone just posted on Twitter, describing his "ADHD girlfriend". He's taken the post down, so I'll summarise. She is hurt...

If you've read the fragments of autobiography I've posted here, you'll have worked out that I'm autistic. There's a lot ...

Flock wallpaper. Once common in Indian restaurants in the 60s and 70s, via Georgian design based on Indian textiles. Probably coming back – ...

Moray Dalton (Katherine Renoir) wrote several mystery-thrillers that deserve more fans. They are very revealing about attitudes of the time...

Toby frill You might think this is one of the limpest titles ever, but for the Cathcarts it's not a simple proceeding. One of a family o...

This novel was rejected by Barbara Pym's publisher, in the early 60s. Perhaps it didn't seem in tune with the times. Pym took it bac...