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Bombs, Boats, and Daffodils…
War Messages: Endpapers in Persephone’s Few Eggs and No Orangesare from a design called London Wall, printed from a fragment of rayon headscard produced by Jacqmar Ltd c.1942. For those of us born after the Second World War it’s hard to imagine what life must have been like during the six grim years of conflict. History books…
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A Little List of Books….
I’ve now finished the ‘treat’ books which I bought courtesy of my mother, and I’m delighted to say there wasn’t a dud among them – I loved them all. Actually, when I say I’ve completed them, I’m lying, because I’ve got two Works in Progress where I opted for slow reads: Vere Hodgson’swartime diaries, Few…
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Greenery Street: A Road with a Life of Its Own
The street consists of thirty-six narrow little houses – all, at a first glance, exactly the same: and a mental picture of it generally includes a large pantechnicon van, backed against the pavement and collecting or discharging household goods. For though every young married couple that comes to Greenery Street does so with the intention…
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Short Story Sunday: Forbidden Love
It’s Sunday, so it’s short story time again, and this week I’ve abandoned Persephone for Virago and I’m dipping into Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Selected Short Stories, which are every bit as wonderful as I hoped they would be. These tales, written between 1932 and 1977, are as sharply subversive as her other work led me…
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