Welcome to my little bookish blog

My name is Stephen Taylor. In my professional life I teach in the Business School at the University of Exeter, write textbooks and assist the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) with their professional qualification schemes. If you are interested in my working life, please visit my personal website here:

This site is devoted to my main interest outside work - reading. I am a complete bookworm and as I get older find that I devote more and more of time to reading. I mostly read history, biography, politics and current affairs. But I also read a lot of classic and literary fiction too. I own around ten thousand books from these and other genres. I am an incurable bookaholic and likely to remain so for as long as I have my marbles.

My aim with this blog is simply to write short pieces reflecting on notable reads, as well as articles on favourite books and other aspects of my bookish life.

I am an active member of TADALACS - the Teignmouth and Dawlish Area Literary and Cultural Society. If you are interested, you can read about our activities here: