Just So Stories

Random Reviews and Ramblings from Redcliffe



  • About me…

    I’ve been a reader since I was three and still have many of my childhood books – very well worn, well loved and treasured. Among the most favourite of these are a large illustrated Wizard of Oz, which was a birthday present from my older sister on my 5th birthday, a little battered book called Read more

  • To read is to …

    To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.” – A C Grayling, Financial Times (in a review of A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel) Read more