Howards end is on the landing : a year of reading from home / Susan Hill.

Starting point -- No order, no order -- A corner of St. James's -- Saturday mornings and Wednesday afternoons -- Next to the pop-up books -- Great Expectations behind the sofa -- This is the weather the cuckoo likes -- The well-travelled bookcase -- Laughter in the next room -- Amis, père et fils -- Never got around to it, don't like the look of it, couldn't get beyond page 10 and other poor excuses -- A little list -- Things that fall out of books -- It ain't broke -- ... Diaries -- One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other -- Life is a handfull of short stories -- The man with the charming smile -- Children 3, adults 0 -- Decline and rise? -- Forgotten -- Writing in books -- Who's afraid? -- The dregs? -- Not met -- Sebald -- Collection, compilation, miscellany -- A book by its cover -- Roots -- Slow, slow, slow, slow-slow, slow -- Long bard -- The way we live now -- Picture books -- Bad bed-fellows -- Sea interludes -- Hardy -- Down among the women -- Reading for the soul -- A thousand books of the world -- The final forty.