The Book Trunk

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  • Cupcake heaven – stitched and baked!

    And now for something completely different. Cup cakes! I have been making edible and non-edible varieties. The ones intended for consumption came courtesy of a recipe in The Hummingbird Bakery Cake Days: Recipes to make every day special, by Tarek… Continue reading

  • Robinson Crusoe: dull and unlikable?

    Well, I finally finished Robinson Crusoe, and am the first to admit it took me quite a time, partly because I got side-tracked by other books, partly because I found some bits more than a little tedious, and partly because… Continue reading

  • A batty but beautiful story

    Don’t you just love it when a novel someone has recommended lives up to expectations? ‘Miss Hargreaves’, by Frank Baker, was wonderful. It’s right up there with ‘Parnassus on Wheels’ (Christopher Morley) as one of my unexpected gems. I spotted… Continue reading

  • Rediscovering Maigret

    Notre Dame, which has nothing to with the story, but last timeI went  to Paris we ate lunch in a cafe near Shakespeae and Companyand this was the view, and it makes me happy to look at it. Well, here… Continue reading

  • Paris with a Dashing Dish

    Ernest, Hadley, and Bumby in Austria, in 1926, Ernest Hemingway must, I think, have been a bit of a sod. Incredibly charismatic, yes. Talented, yes. But a sod, nevertheless. I base this opinion upon ‘The Paris Wife’, a novel in which… Continue reading