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This site is dedicated to my grandmother, who ran away from her Norwegian home in 1915 and arrived in England with nothing but a trunk full of books

  • Murder, Mayhem and Morris Dancing

    OK, so I abandoned this blog, and moved to Blogger, where nothing much got done because life got in the way – Covid, family illness, eye problems, moving house. But I’m entitled to change my mind, and now I’m back trying to re-establish The Book Trunk and give it a new look. It’s a bit…

    chrisharding53

    February 11, 2026
    Uncategorized
    book-review, book-reviews, books, fiction, mystery
  • Starting Over

    I’ve abandoned this blog, because I struggle with those wretched blocks. And ads which I do not want have appeared, and I can’t get rid of them, and they are nothing to do with me, but I can;t get rid of them. And I tried exporting the blog back to Blogger, where I was originally,…

    chrisharding53

    July 9, 2022
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  • The Cornish Coast Murder

    THE Reverend Dodd, Vicar of St. Michael’s-on-the-Cliff, and his old friend Dr Pendrill are enthusiastic afficionados of detective novels. Each week they order six books from the library, which are delivered in a wooden crate tied with string. I love that detail, but did libraries really do this I wonder? And was it a public…

    chrisharding53

    December 29, 2021
    20thC, British Library Crime Classics, Crime, Novels
    John Bude, The Cornish Coast Mystery
  • Sleeping Murder

    Time for another Agatha Christie – Sleeping Murder, written in the 1940s, but not published until shortly after her death in 1976, so I read it for the 1976 Club, organised by Karen at https://kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/ and Simon at https://www.stuckinabook.com/ way back in October, but didn’t get round to posting. Anyway, better late than never! This…

    chrisharding53

    December 2, 2021
    Uncategorized
  • Torn Loyalties of an Evacuee

    Doreen, by Barbara Noble, tells the story of a nine-year-old girl who is evacuated from a London slum during WW2,  and cared for by a well-to-do couple in the country. In the few short months she is there, she is torn between love of this new life, offering undreamed-of opportunities, and love of her mother…

    chrisharding53

    July 28, 2021
    20thC, Novels, Persephone
    Barbara Noble, Doreen.;, Evacuation, WW2
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