High Rising
Angela Thirkell’s High Rising doesn’t sound like much from a summary. Basically, Laura Morland, a successful writer of “good bad books,” goes to the country for Christmas with her talkative train-obsessed son...
The King's General
Since we moved into our house and transported what must have been tons of books, I’ve been making an effort to read the books I already own rather than going...
Jamaica Inn
Jane Seymour as Mary Yellan in the 1983 BBC version of Jamaica Inn Jamaica Inn is a triumph of a good bad book*. You know the kind I mean–ridiculous, melodramatic,...