My earliest reading memoryMemories from my childhood are opening up as I read to my own young children at the moment. Something in the pictures of Helen Cooper’s The Bear Under the Stairs or... Read more »
On the Death of Dr Robert Levet by Samuel Johnson Condemned to Hope’s delusive mineAs on we toil from day to day,By sudden blast or slow decline,Our social comforts drop away. Well... Read more »
Sales of Boris Johnsonâs memoir, Unleashed, have slumped by 62% in its second week since publication. The heavily marketed tome, promoted in a prolonged media round by the former prime minister in... Read more »
Planning military incursions into the Netherlands, likening himself to ancient Greeks and comparing Keir Starmer to castrated bulls: the serialisation of Boris Johnsonâs forthcoming memoir kicked off in characteristic fashion this weekend.... Read more »
Ruth Johnson Colvin, founder of Literary Volunteers of America, is dead at 107 Aug 21 2024 Ruth Johnson Colvin, who founded what became one of the world’s largest organizations of volunteers tutoring... Read more »