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The soul of kindness
As usual, I am a little behind everyone else, and have only just caught up with the latest offering from those nice people at the Backlisted Podcast – The Soul of Kindness, by Elizabeth Taylor. Guests included Virago founder Carmen… Continue reading
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Discovering Georgette Heyer
I should have begun the last post with an apology for not writing anything for so long,, but I shall merely say that sometimes Life Gets in the Way. Anyway, I am reading A Lady and Her Husband (one… Continue reading
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Persephone Post…
Hooray! The postman has been with parcels from those lovely people at Persephone: And inside are these: With their lovely bookmarks: I am very excited about these, but a little sad because for the past six years my Younger Daughter… Continue reading
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It’s Emily Hilda Young Day!
Today I am celebrating another of the Underappreciated Lady Authors gathered together by Jane at Beyond Eden Rock. Emily Hilda Young, was born on this day in 1880 and, like many of those old ‘green’ VMC authors, has had the… Continue reading
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Winter Reading
Over the winter months I’ve been reading Melissa Harrison’s Winter: An Anthology for the Changing Seasons, published in support of the Wildlife Trusts. I’m not normally a fan of ‘slow reading’ – I tend to rush through a book to… Continue reading
The Book Trunk 