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A Cat in the Window by Derek Tangye – #1962ClubWow, there are so many 1962 Club reviews coming in! I am behind with updating the page and not even managing to read all the reviews at the...
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The Double Heart by Lettice Cooper – #1962ClubI didn’t manage to read a huge amount for the 1962 Club, and I seem to have specialised in authors better remembered for other books....
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An End To Running by Lynne Reid Banks #1962Club(I wrote this review before the recent shocking violence in Israel and Gaza, and that’s why it isn’t mentioned.) One of my...
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The 1962 Club: Your Reviews!I’m delighted that the 1962 Club is here – join Karen and me in reading and reviewing books from 1962. Any language, format,...
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Tea or Books? #121: Should Books Have A Message? and Two Jane Gardam NovelsJane Gardam and messages in books – welcome to episode 121! document.createElement('audio');...
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Six Degrees of Separation: from I Capture the Castle to WilliamWhenever the Six Degrees of Separation tag starts with a book I’ve read, I try to join in – and this month’s starts with a...
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Unnecessary Rankings! Barbara ComynsI’m back with two of my favourite things – ranking, and needlessness! I have lots of fun with this occasional series of ranking...
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Road Ends by Mary LawsonReader, I am distraught. I have read all the Mary Lawson novels there are to read – which, admittedly, is only four. Given that there...
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Love and Salt Water by Ethel Wilson #SpinsterSeptemberI haven’t actually read very much of the book I had decided to read for Spinster September – a brilliant brainchild of Nora aka...
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Canada: the books I bought, and whyI am now back from two jam-packed, sunny, lovely weeks in Canada. Naturally I did not see all of Canada in that time, but my brother and I...
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It’s not a weekend, but here’s a miscellany…I’m going to take a blogging break while I go on holiday (again, burglars, someone is looking after my cat so it’s no good trying to...
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Tea or Books? #120: Travel Inspiration from Fiction or Non-Fiction? and The English Air vs The Morning Gift – with Claire / The Captive ReaderD.E. Stevenson, Eva Ibbotson, travel inspo – welcome to episode 120! document.createElement('audio');...
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All Roads Lead To Austen by Amy Elizabeth SmartI can’t remember where I first heard about All Roads Lead To Austen (2012) by Amy Elizabeth Smart – but it certainly ended up...
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In The Dream House by Carmen Maria MachadoSorry I’ve been quiet recently – I got Covid, and while it wasn’t a bad bout of it, I have been quite low on energy since and...
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Join me at an online Sally on the Rocks event (Tues 29th)Throughout the year, Brad at Neglected Books has been running a series of (free) online events highlighting neglected books that have been...
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One Year’s Time by Angela Milne (British Library Women Writers)I’m delighted that One Year’s Time by Angela Milne has been out for a month now, and I realise I’ve mentioned it a few times...
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Cactus by Ethel ManninAfter reading Rolling in the Dew , I was keen to read more of Ethel Mannin’s fiction – particularly something in a...
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Mrs Hart’s Marriage Bureau by Sheena WilkinsonI mentioned Mrs Hart’s Marriage Bureau is a recent weekend miscellany, and I might have mentioned there that I tend to say no to...
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Tea or Books? #119: Amateur Sleuths or Professional Detectives? and Women Talking vs Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The DeadMiriam Toews, Olga Tokarczuk and detective fiction – welcome to episode 119! document.createElement('audio');...
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R.C. Sherriff’s wonderful autobiographyR.C. Sherriff has had something of a renaissance in the past few years, thanks to the good people at Persephone Books. They’ve...
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Some books from Michael Moon’s in WhitehavenI’m up at the Keswick Convention this week, in the Lake District, and one of the things on my list was to visit Michael Moon’s...
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Foxybaby by Elizabeth JolleyI think I started buying Elizabeth Jolley books because Kim at Reading Matters made them sound really interesting – I bought a few but...
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A bunch of books I’ve read recentlyIt’s that time again when I look at a big pile of books I’ve been intending to review, and don’t really have a full-post’s...
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Tea or Books? #118: Do We Read Children and Adult Books By The Same Author? and Lucy vs The Buddha in the AtticJulie Otsuka, Jamaica Kincard, adults’ and children’s books – welcome to episode 118! document.createElement('audio');...
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Unnecessary Rankings! Margery SharpAnother in my Unnecessary Rankings series – and another of my favourite authors (and one that so much of the book blogging world loves too)....
