Georgiana Podsnap's journal

I'm fairly lucky with my "alternative to Strindberg" reading at the moment. The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz, a sequel to...

It feels like a bit of a come-down, this - to go from writing about Donna Tartt to making the obvious point that we risk being beaten in the...

When I started Donna Tartt’s The Secret History , I was afraid I’d caught the over-analysing bug. This was clearly the kind of book you shou...

Looks like the BBC and I've made the same mistake - that is to expect that a series which should rightly be judged on its own merits cou...

It's only the last five years or so that I've discovered the advantages of reading more than one book at a time. When I was younger,...

Have I commented on the dearth of costume dramas lately? I have, haven't I? But I shouldn't complain too much - the Beeb did make a ...

In desperate search of something costume drama-ish to watch, I finally tried an old film called Nicholas and Alexandra which I'd bought...