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A Rook called Chicken!
Generally speaking, ravens, rooks and crows have a pretty bad press. Think about their literary appearances and you’ll find they are usually rather sinister – what about Edgar Allan Poe, or traditional ballads like The Twa Corbies? And Ted Hughes view of the species is pretty bleak really. Not only that, but to the untrained…
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More from The Provincial Lady
My copy of Macmillan’s 1947 four-in-oneThe Provincial Lady doesn’t have a dustjacket, bit would originally have had onelike this. One of the great joys of volunteering in a charity bookshop is that occasionally – well, fairly frequently if I am to be totally honest – I come across a book I really, really want. In…
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Sighting the Whales
A print version of the book, publishedby Sort Of Books. According to the Oxford Dictionary a sightline (or sight-line, or even sight line) is a ‘straight line extending from the eye of a spectator to an object or area being watched ‘, but in Sightlines, Scottish poet Kathleen Jamie takes a look at landscapes many…
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Autumn Floods
The bench , trees and lamp show where the bank usually is. I seem to have had one of those weeks where I haven’t really felt like doing much, and curling up with a book seemed much the best option to pass the time, so I haven’t got round to writing anything for several days. But…
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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Sometimes, when you love a book, it is quite difficult to write about it, especially when lots of other people have already said lots of terribly clever and erudite things – and Miss Pettigrew Livesfor a Day is just such novel. Written by Winifred Watson, it’s a charming fairy tale, funny and light-hearted, with a…
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