Melisende's Library

Medievalist dot net has published an insightful article on what are considered to be ten of the most controversial books to have been writ...

Well, this Librarian is back on board and the Library is again open for business. A change of job, followed by an unexpected promotion ...

Review of Bruce Holsinger's novel " A Burnable Book " by Washington Post fiction editor Ron Charles: Forget Tom Cruise scali...

From the Guardian : Sappho  is one of the most elusive and mysterious – as well as best-loved – of ancient Greek poets. Only one of her...

From Quad City Times : Thomas F. Mayer, 62, died Monday, Jan. 20, 2014, at the Clarissa C. Cook Hospice House in Bettendorf, after a y...

I posed a couple of questions to John in relation to his book " The Ruin " which I shall share with you all now. === === === ...

"A gritty tale of Dark Age Britain, where heroes are few and the lives of thousands hinge upon the whims of greedy and unscrupulous m...

January has begun rather well for the Library - December's order has arrived safe and sound (see: December Additions to the Library ) a...

Amazing article on the use of books as a medium for art from Viralnova : Guess what: your copy of the Canterbury Tales may actually be mo...