Hard to admit (but I was far too young, honestly...)

This is an offer I'm tempted not to refuse.

I don't know if it's my favourite, but I recently reread The Railway Children, and I loved every word of it.

Something else we have in common, apart from our splendid beards.

I'm loving these!

In Italian too. Formicolio...

If you get the legs maybe they deliver themselves.

Sorry about that.

One of the many reasons I love this book is that the Rome it describes was still recognisable in the Rome I found when I moved here in the early 80s. As far as I can tell, I actually lived just round the corner from Annabel's flat!

Matthew Lloyd Davies read the audiobook version of a novel of mine and he did a wonderful job.

I wish I were there!

It's been on my tbr shelf for years. I thought I'd go for something lighter first. I don't know. The Magic Mountain?

By pure coincidence I'm reading it at the moment and I couldn't agree more. Laugh? Out loud. Cry? Pass the tissues. Race? Whoosh... A wonderful book.

This happened to me once, but with fish soup. I'd rather not talk about it.