Skip to content Menu

Companion Pieces

Finding connections between great books

Sidebar
  • Home
  • What to read next?
  • Contact
  • About

Category: Book recommendations

Posted on March 3, 2021March 4, 2021

Welcome to the Pride & Prejudice multiverse

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Pride and Prejudice is the greatest novel ever written. So I spent the last month reading variations, from a vampiric Mr. Darcy to voodoo and murder, with much romance along the way. This is what I discovered.

Continue Reading
Posted on February 10, 2021March 4, 2021

Discovering Pride and Prejudice variations

It started with Bridgerton. Well, it actually started with the January ’21 lockdown, which resulted in a Netflix binge, and then I inhaled the Bridgerton books from Daphne through to…

Continue Reading
Posted on February 10, 2020March 3, 2021

Single, white New Yorker

I read Cat Marnell’s drug-addict-magazine-beauty-editor memoir How To Murder Your Life over the weekend, and its resemblance with Ottessa Moshfegh’s novel My Year of Rest and Relaxation was so resounding…

Continue Reading
Posted on April 22, 2019March 4, 2021

Reading my grief

Soon after my father died, my very young son put away all the ‘sad books’. These were the picture books that choked me during the bedtime routine with their depictions of love, loss and yearning.

Continue Reading
Posted on February 21, 2018April 17, 2019

Punk, parenthood & brushes with death

My memoir companion pieces are Viv Albertine’s Clothes, Music, Boys, Laura Sage’s Bad Blood and Maggie O’Farrell’s I am, I am, I am.

Continue Reading
Posted on January 31, 2018March 4, 2021

Books to help you feel good about life

Kurt Vonnegut’s If This Isn’t Nice, What Is? is a slim collection of his speeches at school and university graduations. At the heart is the premise, adopted from his Uncle,…

Continue Reading
Posted on January 14, 2018March 4, 2021

London Life in WWII

I rediscovered Good Evening, Mrs Craven just before Christmas, and through happenstance was given Jan Struther’s Mrs Miniver not once, but twice for Christmas. The two are perfect bedfellows.

Continue Reading
Posted on November 4, 2017March 4, 2021

The Mitford Sisters

Does every reader go through a Mitford phase?  There is a heady combination of ‘upper classishness’, political extremism, rebellion and style in their lives and writing.   Unity is in…

Continue Reading

Posts navigation

Page 1 Page 2 Next Page

Categories

  • Book recommendations
  • Podcasts

Tags

A Good Read Book recommedations Clothes Music Boys viv albertine You're Booked

Archives

  • March 2021
  • February 2021
  • February 2020
  • April 2019
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • My Twitter
  • My Instagram
  • My Email
Create a website or blog at WordPress.com
Top

Recent posts

  • Welcome to the Pride & Prejudice multiverse March 3, 2021
  • Discovering Pride and Prejudice variations February 10, 2021
  • Single, white New Yorker February 10, 2020
  • I want to hear from these women… April 24, 2019
  • Reading my grief April 22, 2019

Writers’ Choices

howards-end-is-on-the-landing

Can you recommend something to read? Book recommendations from Nick Hornby, Susan Hill and David Miller.  Read more.

  • Follow Following
    • Companion Pieces
    • Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.
    • Companion Pieces
    • Customize
    • Follow Following
    • Sign up
    • Log in
    • Report this content
    • View site in Reader
    • Manage subscriptions
    • Collapse this bar
 

Loading Comments...