Books I read in May

Olivia - Dorothy Strachey This is a pretty short book - I read the whole thing on holiday in the first week of May. You might not have heard of Dorothy Strachey, but you will certainly have heard of Virginia Woolf, who was close friends with Dorothy’s husband Lytton Strachey. This is Strachey's only novel,…

How to tackle your reading list

A couple of weeks ago, having had my place at Cambridge University confirmed (yay), I was sent my reading list. Having accidentally looked at the full faculty reading list before my own pre-term one, my feelings on seeing it were mixed. On the one hand, I was glad that what I had to read was…