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All the Christmases are One
One of Edward Ardizzone’s illustrations for A Child’s Christmas in Wales. Day Nine of the advent Bookfest, and it’s Dylan Thomas, with A Child’s Christmas in Wales, an amalgam of all the Christmases you’ve ever known, a magical mix of myth and reality. As he says: “One Christmas was so much like another, in those…
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Mayhem,Murder and Dionysian Frenzies
I know, I promised an Advent Bookfest, and here is a book about mayhem and murder, but I was having an end of year tidy-up in the electronic filing room, when I found a folder full of unpublished and unfinished posts. I’ll start with Donna Tart. How come I haven’t encountered her work before? Where…
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King John’s Christmas
Two for the price of one today. Since I am in poetic mood, here is AA Milne’s King John’s Christmas, copied from When We Were Very Young, which is the first book I was ever given, when I was less than a year old. King John was not a good man –He had his little…
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A Song for Christmas
This is the post I was going to publish yesterday, to tie in with Jenny Overton’s The Thirteen Days of Christmas, but I went out, so here, a day late, is the last verse of The Twelve Days of Christmas: On the Twelfth Day of Christmas, my true love gave to me Twelve Drummers Drumming,…
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Gifts that Cause a lot of Noise and Mess…
“When Prudence Kitson asked her father what he would like for Christmas, he sighed and said, ‘A husband for your sister.’ So begins The Thirteen Days of Christmas, by Jenny Overton, which is one of the most delightful children’s books you could wish to read, and deserves to be more widely known. The sister is…
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