elizabeth gill,author

I have a sort of thing about mills. We used to live in a railway house called 7 The Mill so presumably one of the bigger houses was the mill...

When I was a little girl Sunday was always the best day of the week. Sunday night was rubbish because we had to have a bath and Monday was s...

Victorian literature is my thing at the moment. I have read most of Elizabeth Gaskell and Anthony Trollope, who is my favourite and I am mov...

I hope so because I am trying to read the classics. The ideas are better, the whole thing lifts you because the language is choice.  I read ...

I haven't posted here since April when it was obviously chucking it down. We now have the opposite problem and are baking in the worst o...

Well, you shouldn't be.  According to the Guardian, tv presenters and almost everybody on the English speaking planet it is 'sat com...

I'm about the embark on War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, one of the greatest of all books. I have been put off by the length, by the fact t...