CalmgroveBooks.wordpress.com For fans of Diana Wynne Jones and Terry Pratchett, each of whom left us during the third month of the year, the return of March Magics – first inaugurated by Kristen Me…| Calmgrove Books
Cartoon (2017) by Dan Piraro ( The stack of books on my bedside table waiting to be read has at times become alarmingly high (as my partner often reminds me) but luckily has not yet proved fatal, s…| Calmgrove Books
Jane Austen: watercolour by her sister Cassandra. “I can’t bear Jane Austen’s tedious books,” thundered one recent pundit in a UK national daily newspaper (I won’t men…| Calmgrove Books
Raymond Briggs, ‘Notes from the Sofa’. Notes from the Sofa by Raymond Briggs. Unbound, 2017 (2015). My cup runneth over. It went all down my trousers. “Award-winning author of The…| Calmgrove Books
Cover illustration by Tove Jansson, showing Moomins spotting Sniff for the first time. The Moomins and the Great Flood by Tove Jansson. Småtrollen och den stora övervämningen (1945) translated by D…| Calmgrove Books