Where do the books that we sell at the House of Hodge come from? Mostly from local people. And, so, what do our assembled books say about...

Poetry is one of my favourite literary mediums, but that wasn’t always the case. In school, as I wrote papers on the intricacies of Poe...

I started volunteering at House of Hodge in July this year, and I have I struggled to get to the end of each shift without buying a book...

Much has been written on the magical powers of the written word, of bookshops, of libraries et cetera, that it seems beyond hackneyed to...

All quiet on the House of Hodge Sunday morning shift. Sauntering BBB’s (Blackstock Brunch Brigaders) casually browse the window display -...

Book Review: All The Light We Cannot See (2014) by Anthony Doerr The reviews were good: 2015 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the 2015...

Interestingly, this 2016 book starts as a novel and ends as a biography. In a way, it’s neither - but that’s not very important. What...

For a long time I would only read non-fiction to satisfy my curiosity about the world. But to understand people’s personal experience and...

10th December 2021 In my last blog I described three books I found while working in the bookshop by authors I was familiar with but where...

8th December 2021 Illustrated books about London generally leave me as cold as a slab of Portland stone. If I see any more neatly...

10th September 2021 In the run-up to the lifting of Lockdown 3 restrictions in London, House of Hodge took in an extraordinary amount of...

09 September 2021 Amongst the several pleasures volunteering for the House of Hodge is the discovery of books which I gladly add to my...