The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame – book group report

(Thank goodness) we’re nearing the end of our marathon Flora & Fauna alphabet reading picks! However, our ‘W’ one was a delight. I was lucky to be able to read Grahame’s 1908 classic in a 2003 Methuen edition (that matches my A.A. Milne set of poems & Pooh books) with the full-colour illustrations by E.H. Read More

My Rude Awakening by E C Featherstone

It’s hard to know where to start with this memoir! I’ll be totally up front – I wasn’t sure it was a book for me. The cover suggests a polo-playing toff who pursues a woman and flies helicopters in the RAF. Now I’m not averse to a bit of Jilly Cooper and well-done smut, nor Read More