Sitemap - 2024 - Books + Bits

All the books I've read in 2024

Bits #20

11 novelists on their book of the year

Bits #19

Hot books to gift (or keep)

Bits #18

All things great and small

Bits #17

Joan Didion, Eve Babitz + the writerly personality

Bits #16

I went on a Colleen Hoover binge

Bits #15

Bits #14

What Writers Read: 35 Writers on Their Favourite Book

Bits #13

Strout + Colwin

Hurry up and finish Rivals

Bits #12

Bits #11

If Icarus wore lingerie

Bits #10

"When a woman loses a baby, she is not transformed into an ethereal heroine"

Bits #9

"We are all looking for something to worship"

Bits #8

All At Sea

Bits #7

This 1929 'divorce novel' will make you laugh and cry

Bits #6

Piglettes deserves to be a modern classic

Bits #5

Bits #4

The ring on the finger; the pram in the hallway

Bits #3

The therapist who planted false memories

Bits #2

3 books I can't stop thinking about

Bits #1

Book Chat with Bobby: Erasure by Percival Everett

Your summer reading list, part 4

On smartphones, teenagers and anxiety

Ask Me Anything!

Ask Me Anything!

Movie thoughts: a trio in review

Your summer reading list, part 3

10 things giving me joy right now

Your summer reading list, part 2

The great '90s movie project

Parenting a reader

Your summer reading list, part 1

On not finishing books

Book Chat with Bobby: The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

"Nostalgia can be radical"

Shelf Request #12

a list of 29 things I googled this week

Season 4 of Doing It Right has landed!

My favourite Jilly Coopers

3 vintage celebrity interviews I love

The rise and rise of tradwives

Book Thoughts: The Lagos Wife by Vanessa Walters

My British cinema jag

3 new novels to feast upon 🍴

The Bee Sting: Spoiler Chat

Book Thoughts: The Bee Sting by Paul Murray

Book Thoughts: The Secret of Cooking by Bee Wilson

I fell down a Google hole

The List #18

Shelf Request #11

Balls, burners, the slipperiness of time

Book Chat with Bobby: One Day by David Nicholls

Two excellent memoirs coming out this month

Two excellent novels coming out this month

An interview with Crystal Hefner

The List #17

A juicy dollop of Bits

TV Thoughts: Griselda

Shelf Request #10

It's My Birthday!

Book Thoughts: Come and Get It by Kiley Reid

The List #16

A cult Japanese bestseller to pre-order now