Tales from the Reading Room

A Literary Salon Where All Are Welcome
Hello, I’m Victoria Best and thank you for visiting my blog.

When I first began it, in April 2006, I was a lecturer in French literature at Cambridge University on extended sick leave for chronic fatigue syndrome. In October 2009 I returned to work, but part-time, to start up study support for the students in the arts and humanities at my college. I’m still doing that job now.

But blogging led me astray and gave me a very different voice to the academic one I had been using. I loved it, and found it a lot of fun. So when I’m not helping students, I’m writing. It’s not easy to crossover into the commercial market but I am enjoying myself a great deal, and feel pretty confident that if I publish nothing in my lifetime, I’ll be a huge hit when I’m dead (Mr. Litlove has big plans).

Review policy: I am happy to review works of literary fiction and non-fiction. But I am afraid I don’t possess the means to read ebooks and do not review self-published works.

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