I’m reading Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons at the moment, and I had forgotten how deeply satisfying it is to watch one perfectly composed young woman arrive among a family of spectacular eccentrics and begin, very calmly, to reorganise their lives.

It is sharp, ridiculous, beautifully observant, and exactly the sort of book that makes you want to keep interrupting whoever is nearby to read bits aloud.

So tell me: what are you reading at the moment, and is it behaving itself?

Perhaps you’re fifty pages into something magnificent, contemplating an abandonment, rereading an old favourite, or finishing something entirely out of spite. All states of readerly affairs are welcome.

The Reading Room at Moorland & Mayfair is open. Pull up a chair, bring whatever is currently colonising your bedside table, and come tell us about it.

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