At this rate I’ll start my own festival soon. How does The Bookwitch Festival strike you? Just joking. I think. You never know with me. Didsbury has its own festival, and it began on Saturday mo… more →
Bookwitchdolorosa12 wrote 2 weeks ago: The only wars my family waged were with pen and paper. Madhur Jaffrey, Seasons of Splendour. As some … more →
wpbkids wrote 3 weeks ago: Did you know November is National Opera Month? The West Palm Beach Public Library is bringing Opera … more →
lostspook wrote 1 month ago: “It makes you think of turquoise seas and lovely white sand . . . Brazilian things to go with my Bra … more →
bookwitch wrote 2 months ago: At this rate I’ll start my own festival soon. How does The Bookwitch Festival strike you? Just … more →
bookwitch wrote 3 months ago: if you haven’t already had enough. In fact, here are more photos even if you have. And that … more →
bookwitch wrote 3 months ago: Well, he did. Last week he received the Medal of Freedom from President Obama, accompanied by his da … more →
bookwitch wrote 3 months ago: We travelled to Bali Rai-country on Sunday, to retrieve Daughter from outer space. On the drive to L … more →
bookwitch wrote 5 months ago: Programmes have been perused at length. Why do they have to be quite so long? Could be because book … more →
bookwitch wrote 5 months ago: ‘What kept you?’ said Daughter when we found each other at Preston’s very grand Co … more →
bookwitch wrote 5 months ago: You’ve all heard the joke about the traveller who jumps into a taxi and demands to be taken to … more →
bookwitch wrote 5 months ago: Adèle Geras is on the radio today! ‘Quote Unquote’ at 13.30 today on Radio 4. Should be good. Except … more →
bookwitch wrote 7 months ago: It’s not just buses that never come and then several turn up at once. Actually, I can’t … more →
bookwitch wrote 7 months ago: A long Shakespearean night is the new offering from Adèle Geras in Dido. All right, it may be 24 hou … more →
bookwitch wrote 7 months ago: Today I bring you the Adèle Geras interview, which is long overdue. I kept feeling I wanted to … more →
bookwitch wrote 7 months ago: Daughter and witch invaded the Geras’s household yesterday, wielding notebook and camera, for … more →
bookwitch wrote 9 months ago: Adèle Geras is being kept busy. She has been overseeing the mailing of proofs of Dido, which is out … more →
bookwitch wrote 9 months ago: How do you know what you don’t know? Tricky, isn’t it? My friend Pippi spent a year as a … more →
bookwitch wrote 9 months ago: Daughter is a little like Lucy Coats. She doesn’t trust her mother. According to Lucy’s … more →
bookwitch wrote 10 months ago: Picture if you can, a long time ago when the witch and her Resident IT Consultant didn’t actua … more →