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

Walking on Water!

Water over water: on the left of the photo is the Coventry Canal,while on the right-hand side is the River Tame, in the low-lyingground below. I’ve been walking on water – well over it, to be precise. Today’s Saturday Snapshot shows one of my favourite spots, where the local canal crosses a local river, and…

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June 15, 2013

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Short Story Sunday

Back to Persephone this week, and a sweetly moving tale about enduring love, and faith. The Pain was written by South African born Pauline Smith in 1923, and is set in her native land. Juriaan van Royien and his wife Deltje have been married almost 50 years. They have no children and few possessions, and…

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June 9, 2013

http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, old age, Pauline Smith, short story Sunday, The Pain, The Persephone Book of Short Stories
Short Story Sunday: Infinite Riches

My 1993 edition of Infinite Riches,is edited by Lynn Knight. A slight change from ‘The Persephone Book of Short Stories’ this week, because I found a copy of Infinite Riches, a Virago Modern Classics short story collection, and once I looked at it and saw the first offering was by Sylvia Townsend Warner how could…

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June 2, 2013

An Act of Reparation, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Infinite Riches Virago Modern Classics Short Stories, shot stories, Sylvia Townsend Warner
Short Story Sunday

Time for Short Story Sunday again, and I will start by saying I absolutely hated this week’s offering, and had it been the first tale in The Persephone Book of Short Stories I doubt I would have read any further. Fortunately it’s story number two, and ahead of me lie Dorothy Whipple, EM Delafield, Edith…

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May 26, 2013

http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Katherine Mansfield, short story, The Black Cap, The Persephone Book of Short Stories
Teatime Treats!

Teatime treats! Help yourself to a cake or biscuit people! And you needn’t worry about the calorie count as these little morsels are certainly not fattening – because they’re made from wool. I was so delighted with the Blooms and Bunnies I produced for Easter I thought I would try and make something each month…

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May 25, 2013

biscuits, craft, crochet, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Saturday Snapshot

Walking on Water!

Short Story Sunday

Short Story Sunday: Infinite Riches

Short Story Sunday

Teatime Treats!