Bii's Books

So, you may be wondering if I have some kind of obsessive compulsive disorder to return to an author I've read only recently so soon, bu...

By now you must be thinking that all I ever do is read books written by ladies. Whilst it's true that I have spent some time shifting th...

When I was first researching great female writers, the name Marilynne Robinson came up. Her catalogue is small (she's written a mere 3 b...

Given the hype surrounding the movie, it was fairly inevitable that someone, at some point, was bound to offer me a read of Susan Hill's...

Following on from my last post about The Housekeeper and the Professor it got me thinking about books that are just really nice reads. You ...

Not a great deal happens in the story of The Housekeeper and the Professor, a short but definitely sweet book by Japanese writer Yoko Ogawa....

  The other day I was thinking about a plan we had to sell our house and live on a narrowboat. It was a great idea, a big part of me would...