The Book Trunk

chrisharding53

  • Rediscovering Rosamond Lehmann

    One of the good things about blogging is that not only do you come across recommendations for things you’ve never read, but you come across things you’ve read and forgotten. Rosamond Lehmann is an example. At some point in the… Continue reading

  • These Little Piggies… Are Made of Flowers!

    These floral pigs stand amid the flowers on a roundabout outside the entrance to Tamworth Railway Station, and they are the nicest things about the station, which is truly horrible – it’s a concrete monstrosity, and the second-tier of the… Continue reading

  • Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf – Not Me!

    Having spent more than 30 years avoiding Virginia Woolf (I read her as a teenager, but failed to understand her writing, and consequently didn’t like it at all) I approached Mrs Dalloway with trepidation, but I needn’t have worried – I… Continue reading

  • The Provincial Daughter Needs a Voice of Her Own

    At the time it was first published (in 1960), Provincial Daughter, written by RM Dashwood, must have seemed a good idea – after all, it’s the diary of a fifties housewife, written by the daughter of EM Delafield, author of… Continue reading

  • Knock The Village Down – It Spoils The View!

    Part of the grounds at Shugbrough Hall. Today’s Saturday Snapshots come to you from Shugborough Hall, in Staffordshire, where an entire village was once razed to the ground because it spoiled the view! Sadly, on the day I visited, the… Continue reading