The Book Trunk

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  • The Hidden World Beneath London

    “Tread carefully over the pavements of London for you are treading on skin, a skein of stone that covers rivers and labyrinths, tunnels and chambers, streams and caverns, pipes and cables, springs and passages, crypts and sewers, creeping things that… Continue reading

  • A Flying Nun and a Holy Apple

    I had a review all ready to post – but I got sidetracked by my FB Saint of the Day, Our Venerable Mother Irene of Chrysovalantou, a ninth century abbess who levitated, saw  visions of angels, and was granted three holy… Continue reading

  • Hackney: Fact or Fiction?

    Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire,  A Confidential Report,  by Iain Sinclair One can’t like everything one reads, and this book is proof of that. I picked it up in the library because my father came from Hackney and because of the… Continue reading

  • Children of the Revolution

    Well, as usual I seem to have left it a while before blogging, but I have sat down and spoken sternly to myself. It is no good, I said, sitting around feeling sorry for yourself. You may not have a… Continue reading

  • Searching for the Isles of the Blessed

    Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it’s getting! Having, more or less, resurrected and redesigned my book blog, I need to put pen to paper (or should I say fingers to keyboard) and produce a post – after all, writing is the… Continue reading