…if I can make the food at home, I’ll stop wistfully staring at the cakes in the window when I walk by. Probably not though. Sophie, Editorial Administrator Recommend This:…

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…from someone so young ( born in 1990!), is incredible. This is one of my favourite poems so far – that last line is so tactile you can almost taste…

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…in Fashion?’, they’ve also added a wedding blog to their website. And it seems that wedding planning is now all over the Internet – sites like Pinterest are letting people…

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…a few lucky artists and those who can both write and draw – Beatrix Potter, for example – it’s always the authors whose names survive the years. Should we give…

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…Capote gave a nicely succinct critique of On the Road, which has become one of my favourite literary quotes: ‘That isn’t writing; it’s typing.’ Sara Magness, Editorial Administrator Recommend This:…

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…our parks and cities look like this – check out these beautiful autumn pictures: Do you have any great seasonal photos to share? Sophie. Editorial Administrator P.s. Credit for the…

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Recently I read this article on The Guardian website, which made me actually want to post an argumentative comment underneath it (don’t worry, I didn’t – I know it would…

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…Andrei is drawing up reform proposals and hobnobbing with Speranski – the Peter Mandelson of his day – who he believes to be a rather smashing charismatic sort of force…

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…if you can recreate the feel of Mad Men? Next week: the 1970s – just the come down after the ’60s, or something better? Sara Magness, Editorial Administrator Recommend This:…

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…Cue Wilson Kipsang, the elite Kenyan runner who broke the men’s marathon world record in Berlin last September in 2 hours, 3 minutes and 23 seconds – shaving 15 seconds…

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I recently finished The Examined Life by Stephen Grosz – a book that has been following me everywhere for the past month or so. I kept seeing giant posters on…

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…only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. – William Butler Yeats   Sara Magness, Editorial Administrator Recommend This:…

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…favourites (I think because it includes a giraffe): Is there anyone else out there who’s made something ingenious from the pages of a book? Sara Magness, Editorial Administrator Recommend This:…

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…– can’t get better than that. Or delve into the Allison & Busby classic, The Late Mr Shakespeare, by Robert Nye – a wonderful novel written from the perspective of…

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…for long though, because – oh blessed good fortune! – his daddy dies and legitimises him in his will, thereby conveniently leaving him his huge stacks of cash. Aside from…

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…film starring the likes of Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield and Keira Knightley. The book is unusual in its combination of idyllic English countryside with a bleak dystopian future – it…

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…Nightmare Before Christmas: Not your usual sentimental Christmas film – this one’s by Tim Burton so it’s obviously quite creepy. Can also be watched on Halloween! 4. Happy Feet: Not…

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…that, she was gone – accidentally leaving him holding her old-fashioned, disposable camera, chock full of undeveloped photos . . . And now Jason – ex-teacher, ex-boyfriend, part-time writer and…

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…memory. I’m convinced I’ll enjoy the film though – Carey Mulligan, Leonardo DiCaprio, Twenties costumes and directed by Baz Luhrmann? This one sounds perfect. Sara Magness, Editorial Administrator Recommend This:…

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…Sounds like a pretty good weekend to me – I may go along, perhaps with a good book to accompany many cups of coffee. Sara Magness, Editorial Administrator Recommend This:…

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…Dunne. And if this does well, I hope and I pray that David Fincher takes on Sharp Objects – Flynn’s haunting, supremely creepy debut novel about a young reporter investigating…

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