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Particularly Cats by Doris Lessing – #NovNov Day 17Particularly Cats (1967) is the third book by Doris Lessing that I’ve read – but nothing in the dystopian Memoirs of a...
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Still Life by Richard Cobb – #NovNov Day 16Today’s book is cheating a bit, because I started it in September – and somehow it fell to one side, and I read the second half...
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Tea or Books? #99: Do We Like Essays? and Brook Evans vs The Crowded StreetWinifred Holtby, Susan Glaspell, and essays – welcome to episode 99!...
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The White Riband by F. Tennyson Jesse – #NovNov Day 15A Pin to See the Peepshow by F. Tennyson Jesse has just come out as a British Library Women Writers title, and I think it’s probably the book...
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The Silent Traveller in Oxford by Chiang Yee – #NovNov Day 14In 2009, I was in the Bookbarn in Somerset and somehow got chatting to someone who worked there. It came up that I lived in Oxford, and he...
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Tinkers by Paul Harding – #NovNov Day 13Another late post today, because I was out this evening – seeing the film Early Summer – but today I read 2009’s...
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Heritage by Vita Sackville-West – #NovNov Day 12I think Vita Sackville-West is a really underrated writer – because she is still chiefly remembered for her connection with Virginia Woolf....
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Notes From An Island by Tove Jansson – #NovNov Day 11What a lovely book. My brother got me Notes From An Island (1996, translated 2021) by Tove Jansson for my birthday – knowing my love...
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The Story of Stanley Brent by Elizabeth Berridge – #NovNov Day 10I read a book published by Michael Walmer yesterday, albeit in a different edition – and today I read one that was published by his imprint...
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The Poor Man by Stella Benson – #NovNov Day 9I first read Stella Benson when I was writing about witches for my DPhil – Living Alone is perhaps her best known novel, and is...
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The Birds of the Innocent Wood by Deirdre Madden – #NovNov Day 8Thank you for all the birthday good wishes for yesterday – Colin and I had a lovely time, successfully escaping an escape room with some...
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A Wild Swan by Michael Cunningham – #NovNov Day 6Today is definitely cheating, because A Wild Swan and other tales (2015) is, as the full title suggests, not a novella. It’s very...
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Murder Included by Joanna Cannan – #NovNov Day 5A murder mystery is a fun choice for my novella-a-day challenge, because I always wants to finish a murder mystery in one day – and...
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The Lonely by Paul Gallico – #NovNov Day 4I bought a book ten years ago that I thought was called Ludmilla and the Lonely – turns out it is two novellas, the second and longer...
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Often I Am Happy by Jens Christian Grøndahl – #NovNov Day 3Like Amsterdam that I read yesterday, Often I Am Happy by Jens Christian Grøndahl opens with a death. Now your husband is also dead,...
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Amsterdam by Ian McEwan – #NovNov Day 2I bought Amsterdam (1998) by Ian McEwan around the time I read Atonement – so probably around 2003, i.e. half my life ago, more or...
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A Child in the Theatre by Rachel Ferguson – #NovNov Day 1It’s time for Novellas in November – run by Cathy and Rebecca – and I have rather unwisely decided to try and read one...
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Small Wonder: Essays by Barbara KingsolverAs mentioned in my previous post, I’ve just read Small Wonder , a collection of essays by Barbara Kingsolver published in 2002, some or...
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K is for KingsolverThis is part of an ongoing series where I write about a different author for each letter of the alphabet. You can see them all here . I...
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British Library Women Writers 11: The Love Child by Edith OlivierWhen the British Library Women Writers series was first suggested, one of the titles I thought about first was The Love Child (1927) by Edith...
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None-Go-By by Mrs Alfred SidgwickIn Mrs Alfred Sidgwick’s 1923 novel, None-Go-By is the fanciful title of the Cornish cottage that Mary and Thomas decide to move to,...
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Anne Severn and the Fieldings by May SinclairIt’s not the first time I’ve said it, but there is always such a sense of achievement in reading a book that has been on the...
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I got to be a guest on Backlisted!If you read my blog, I’m almost certain you already know about the Backlisted podcast. ‘Giving new life to old books’ is their...
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Some books I’ve got recently…This is sort of a haul post, but the books have come from quite a lot of different places on many different occasions over the past month or so....
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Announcing the next club…The 1976 Club has been great fun – and you only have to wait six months until we do it all again. After some discussion, Karen and I have...
