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Tea or Books? #95: Woolf vs Austen and The Foolish Gentlewoman vs The Half-Crown HouseJane Austen, Virginia Woolf, Margery Sharp, Helen Ashton – welcome to episode 95....
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Announcing the next club!What a fun week it has been! The 1936 Club has been so fruitful – fascinating to see what the world was reading on the cusp of war, and what...
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Two final #1936Club titlesI’ve never read more books for a club year – for the first time, I’ve read more than there are days in the club week. (Or,...
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Begin Again by Ursula Orange – #1936ClubOf all the authors Scott at Furrowed Middlebrow has talked about over the years, Ursula Orange is the one who appealed most. So it was very...
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Little G by E.M. Channon – #1936ClubLittle G is a terrible title but rather a lovely book. It is a 1936 title from E.M. Channon who is apparently well-known as a...
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Laughing Gas by P.G. Wodehouse – #1936ClubWhen I wrote about Strange Journey by Maud Cairnes , a body-swap comedy, I was wondering which others there were. Malie and Constance both...
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The Enchanted Voyage by Robert Nathan – #1936ClubReading Robert Nathan is one of the relatively rare times when I know what it must be like to be an Anglophile-bibliophile outside of the...
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Thirteen Guests by J. Jefferson Farjeon – #1936ClubThere are a whole bunch of British Library Crime Classics from 1936, and I have quite a few of them on my shelves. Which to choose? Murder in...
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Miss Linsey and Pa by Stella Gibbons – #1936clubLots of Stella Gibbons’ novels have come back into print in recent years – from Vintage and from Dean Street Press – but...
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#1936Club – links round-upI’m very excited that the 1936 Club starts tomorrow – a week, run by me and Karen , where we invite everyone to read and review books...
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The Great Victorian Collection by Brian Moore2021 is 100 years since the novelist Brian Moore was born – and 22 since he died – and Cathy at 746 Books is helping lead a year...
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#1936Club: Reminder!It’s now less than two weeks until the next club year, where Karen and I encourage everybody to read books published in the same year....
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Tea or Books? #94: Do We Care Where Authors Live? and Dusty Answer vs Frost in MayRosamond Lehmann, Antonia White, and authors’ houses – welcome to episode 94!...
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Things That Fall From the Sky by Selja Ahava – EUPLThe team behind the European Prize for Literature (EUPL) got in touch to ask if I’d highlight some of the winners of the prize over the past...
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Brat Farrar by Josephine TeyMy old housemate, and dear friend, Kirsty has three abiding passions: dogs, lexicography, and talking about how great Josephine Tey is. It was...
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Two-Part Invention by Madeleine L’EngleEver since I read Claire’s review of Two-Part Invention by Madeleine L’Engle (1988), I’ve been keen to read it. That...
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Announcing two new British Library Women Writers titles!As it’s International Women’s Day, the British Library publishing team have been putting an especial focus on the Women Writers series...
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Hear me speak about British Library Women WritersNext Wednesday, at 7pm, I’m delighted to say I’ll be chatting with Gill at Lindum Books about the British Library Women Writers...
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H is for HillThis 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 ....
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Tea or Books? #93 Do We Care What Characters Are Called? and Two Tove Jansson NovelsSummer, Winter, names – welcome to episode 93. https://www.stuckinabook.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/tea-or-books-episode-93.mp3...
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One Woman’s Year by Stella Martin CurreyThere were several independent publishers I knew I wanted to read for #ReadIndies month, and of course Persephone was among them. But which...
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Dear Reader by Cathy RentzenbrinkI will read any book about reading, as you might be aware if you’re a regular reader of Stuck in a Book. Some of them are among my...
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The Opposite House by Helen OyeyemiI got sent Helen Oyeyemi’s second novel, The Opposite House , by the publisher in… 2008, the year after it was published. Oops,...
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The Poisoned Chocolates Case by Anthony BerkeleyF or #ReadIndies month, I had to pick up one of the many unread British Library Crime Classics I have on my shelf. Or, more precisely, piled...
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Riceyman Steps by Arnold BennettArnold Bennett is perhaps one of those names who is more remembered than read nowadays, though I know there is a very active Arnold Bennett...
