LLB chooses Eloise

Naturally, the bibliophile in me is gobbling up the BBC's current platter of book-based programming, and I was particularly delighted this evening to see Lawrence Llewelyn Bowen present Eloise as one of his 5 choices on My Life in Books. In case you missed it, I raved about Eloise in Moscow almost exactly a year ago.

Neglected classics

Today's Guardian website suggests ten great neglected classics, and I agree with all of them; it may form the basis of a new spring reading list. It's wonderful to see at least one Capuchin and one Persephone in there, too.