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Their Eyes Were Watching God
There I was, sitting on the floor in the backroom of the Oxfam shop, sorting and pricing books, when I came across a well-thumbed copy of Their Eyes Were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston. I’d never come across the author before, but it was a Virago Modern Classic, with an eye-catching painting on the…
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Underneath the Arches….
This week’s Saturday Snapshot hasn’t moved far from Tamworth Station, because on this day (August 4) in 1839, railway pioneer George Stephenson drove one of his engines across the newly constructed 19 Arches spanning the Anker Valley at Tamworth. Behind the engine (which was named after the town) were six carriages packed local VIPs and…
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A Farewell to Maeve Binchy
I am sure thousands of words have already been written in tribute to Irish novelist Maeve Binchy, who died on Monday at the age of 72, but I could not let her death go unmarked, even if other people have already said the same thing, or expressed it better than I can. Many reviewers and…
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August Reading
It hardly seems possible that August is here, the shops are already full of ‘Back to School’ displays, and summer will soon be over – though this year it never really seems to have started. Perhaps we’ll get an Indian Summer during the autumn, with plenty of sunshine. Anyway, I always find it comforting to…
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Canadian Reading
My reading list for July included a self-set challenge to read something by a Canadian – other than Margaret Atwood, Guy Gavriel Kay and Lucy M Montgomery – because I know nothing whatsoever about the country or its writers. So I’ve started with Runaway, a collection of short stories by Alice Munro, since she was…
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