The Book Trunk

This site is dedicated to my grandmother, who ran away from her Norwegian home in 1915 and arrived in England with nothing but a trunk full of books

Book Buying in London!

Book boxes outside Any Amount of Books. I’ve been to London for a couple of days visiting my Younger Daughter, and although I didn’t make it as far as Persephone, we spent a happy afternoon exploring bookshops in Charing Cross Road. I guess their main business must be from the rare books – collectibles, first…

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August 16, 2015

Any Amount Of Books, Book buying, Gosh! comic shop, Henry Pordes, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Virago
Time To Tidy The Shelves…

LibraryThing and Viragoing for August has gone to my head I think. Have started trying to tidy bookshelves – not something I attempt all that often! Now have two rows of Viragos and Persephones, which may not look a lot, but they’re double stacked, so there’s a complete row of green Viragos behind the grey…

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August 13, 2015

books, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Persephone, shelves, tidying
The Land of Green Ginger

Another Virago for LibrayThing’s All Virago All Augustchallenge. And I think this one will do nicely for the What’s in a Name challenge over at The Worm Hole – it’s my entry for a book with the letters ‘ing’ in the title. And it fits the bill for Yorkshire, for Reading England 2015 (which you…

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August 11, 2015

20th century women’s fiction, All Virago All Augusst book challenge, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, The Land of Green Ginger, Virago Modern Classics, Winfred Hotlby
Tears, Lies – and Ice Cream!

My 1990 edition of A Little Love, A little Learning. The cover shows Weisse Vase Mit Heidekraut by Oskar Moll. The year Aunt Hat came to us, my main ambition – apart from rescuing someone from drowning, or winning the Victoria Cross – was to go down to Jock’s Icecream Parlour in the main…

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August 8, 2015

A Little Learning, A Little Love, coronation, families, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Nina Bawden, Virago Modern Classic
A Doomed Love Affair

I’ve never read any Elizabeth Bowen before, and I didn’t quite know what to expect from The House in Paris, with its themes of love, sex, betrayal, growing up and the search for identity. To be honest, after reading it I’m still not totally sure how I feel about it. It’s one of those books…

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July 22, 2015

Elizabeth Bowen, French Bingo, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Paris in July, The House in Paris

Book Buying in London!

Time To Tidy The Shelves…

The Land of Green Ginger

Tears, Lies – and Ice Cream!

A Doomed Love Affair