Jane, Actually on sale now!
Jane, Actually is now on sale at Amazon for the Kindle, as a paperback, and at Barnes & Noble for the Nook. It should shortly …
The Adventure of the Abbey Grange
Nothing succeeds like success and by all measures The Adventure of the Abbey Grange is a success for Sherlock Holmes, but it’s …
Jane Austen documentary double feature
I’m late to the post in writing this (almost everyone has shared or seen this on facebook), but I feel it incumbent …
Silly, silly Supersizers Go Regency
This has to be one of the silliest shows ever to pose as a food documentary on the BBC. Restaurant critic Giles …
Found while looking for something else: Mikado prompt book
Whilst looking up the correct spelling of Pooh-Bah from the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta The Mikado, I chanced upon the prompt book …
Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
By now, readers of this blog must know that I consider American documentaries to suffer miserably in comparison to those made across …
The Adventure of the Second Stain
Oh what a wonderful story for those who love to nitpick. It has so many nuggets that one can brood over on …
Sense and Sensibility The Musical review
Perhaps the worst person to review Sense and Sensibility The Musical is a Janeite. It’s a little hard …
What I’ve read/watched: Cold Comfort Farm
For some reason, Cold Comfort Farm had been preying on my mind recently. Some oblique reference to “something nasty in the woodshed” …
His Last Bow quiz
Certain things you leave till last. I’ve never read Agatha Christie’s Curtains, for instance, or the director’s cut of Blade Runner and for …