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The Brontes Went to Woolworths
The lovely Bloombsury edition I borrowed from the library. As children, the Brontes wrote about their imaginary worlds of Gondal and Angria, enacting the stories and playing the parts of the characters they created. The adult Brontes make brief, ghostly… Continue reading
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April in Ledbury with Browning
I have been staying with my mother for a week, in Ledbury, which seems to be something of a black hole as far as the Internet is concerned – a lot of the time it seems impossible to get online… Continue reading
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Cookery and Crime – Venetian Style
The return of the Bucentaur to the Molo on Ascension Day,by Canaletto shows an 18th century view of Venice. I’m a vegetarian, and whilst I do cook meat for people, it takes a lot to make me feel that I’d like to eat it… Continue reading
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This Book is Bonkers but Brilliant
A book featuring Sherlock Holmes living in retirement in rural Sussex, keeping bees, and taking as his apprentice a stroppy, super-intelligent, American girl of 15, sounds bonkers, especially when you realise is set firmly in the 20th century. It won’t… Continue reading
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Haunting Horrors of WWI
So much has been written – and continues to be written – about the First World War that sometimes it’s difficult knowing what to say about a book, especially when the volume in question has become a classic, but Vera… Continue reading
The Book Trunk 