![]()
Summer suggested reads with The Braided Rug Company
Summer reads are all about escaping into another world, whether you’re sitting on a sun lounger or snuggled up in an armchair. Here are our Are You Sitting Comfortably top reads – we’ve had our heads in a book to bring you the best of what’s on the shelves right now from a little magic to historical heists, summer get togethers, a troupe of dotty dachshunds and much more. …
![]()
Are You Sitting Comfortably? February reads with Smith and Munson
Rebecca F sent me the most exquisite tulips last year and I have never forgotten them. With tulip fever dreams already blooming around us I knew that this fifth generation British company were the perfect sponsors for this month’s subject of Family. Smith and Munson were founded in 1949 in South Lincolnshire and are now fifth generation flower growers. It all began with George Smith, whose daughter Hilda married Jack…
![]()
Christmas Reads
A Book Bundle of Joy for Christmas and beyond by Rebecca Fletcher Some years ago, I was writing a magazine feature about Christmas when I came across an Icelandic tradition which struck me as the perfect festive pastime. Deciding there and then that the closest I might get to visiting Iceland any time soon was prizing open the heavily frosted door of the freezer, I became an adoptee of this particularly lovely Christmas Eve…
![]()
Are You Sitting Comfortably- November reads “Reputations” sponsored by Julia Brendel
What an absolute corker of a month! Three extraordinary books dealing with super strong female characters. We will be interviewing the super famous Sarah Vaughan about her latest novel (also about to be made into a tv series like her previous book “Anatomy of A Scandal”) as well as looking at Kate Mosse’s latest book “Warrior Queens and Quiet Revolutionaries”. The amazing textile designer Julia Brendel is kindly sponsoring this…
![]()
Are You Sitting Comfortably Suggested further reads for October “New Beginnings”
What a live this week. What more could you ask for when the rain is lashing down than an evening of books and wine? Plenty of rooms with a view too with SJ Axelby’s beautiful ode to room portraiture in her collection of illustrations and vignettes into designers’ living spaces, Interior Portraits: An Artist’s View of Designers’ Living Spaces. Definitely the perfect accompaniment to any new beginning and an…
