Harriet Baker

Dec 2, 2024 | inkl.com | Percival L. Everett |Asako Yuzuki |Lili Anolik |Harriet Baker

Our guide to the books you’ll want to give as gifts this Christmas - (The Independent)Books are the best kind of Christmas present, and we don’t want to argue about it. When you give someone you love an unputdownable novel, a juicy biography, a captivating history book or a set of letters or poems, what you are also giving is hours and hours of pleasure. That’s why five of us writers are sharing our top five suggestions for great books to give as gifts this Christmas.

Jul 12, 2024 | ft.com | Harriet Baker

What can a list of sheets and pillow cases, tablecloths and bath towels tell us about Virginia Woolf? Quite a lot, I think.

Apr 2, 2024 | literaryreview.co.uk | Harriet Baker

Even today, a move from the city to the country demands more than just practical plans. One must also picture a different kind of life. How might one cope with dark winter evenings? Or adapt to heating with oil and logs in the absence of mains gas? Or fit in with the locals? In 1930, Londoner Sylvia Townsend Warner took a bold step when on impulse she bought a cottage in the Dorset village of East Chaldon. She had, however, already imagined such a transition.

Jun 21, 2023 | theparisreview.org | Harriet Baker

By Harriet Baker June 21, 2023 On Books On August 3, 1917, Virginia Woolf wrote in her diary for the first time in two years—a small notebook, roughly the size of the palm of her hand. It was a Friday, the start of the bank holiday, and she had traveled from London to Asheham, her rented house in rural Sussex, with her husband, Leonard.

May 30, 2023 | apollo-magazine.com | Harriet Baker

From the June 2023 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. A large photograph greets you on entering: a naked woman sitting atop a wooden crate, her knees angled to one side, a hand resting behind. She has a small belly and breasts; the skin of her hands, face and neck is burnished brown, likely from her long walks through Paris in the sun. Her chin is slightly upturned and her expression, though rather flat, is certainly not embarrassed.