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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

  • The Real Enigma Heroes, by Phil Shanahan

    FORGET Hollywood. This is the story of the forgotten British heroes who rescued vital documents about the Enigma code from a sinking German U-boat – and there isn’t an American accent within earshot. The paperwork retrieved gave experts at Bletchley Park the breakthrough they needed to crack the Enigma code, and their new-found knowledge helped…

    chrisharding53

    September 21, 2010
    code, Colin Grazier, German, HMS Petard, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Phil Shanahan, The Real Enigma Heroes, Tony Fasson, U-boat
  • Look at a Book

    BOOKS are important. Not only do they tell stories, they relay information and link us with the past and the future. They help us to make sense of our own lives – and to gain insight and understanding into the way others live. I wanted to create a second page on my original blog where…

    chrisharding53

    September 17, 2010
    bookish, books, The Book Trunk, The Real Enigma Heroes, The Tapestr of Love
  • Started Early, Took My Dog

    KATE Atkinson is one of my favourite authors, and Human Croquet is the book I would most like to have to written – but having just read Started Early, Took My Dog I feel she is in danger of becoming a little formulaic. It is not that the book is a dud. It isn’t. Atkinson…

    chrisharding53

    September 13, 2010
    http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Kate Atkinson, Took My Dog’
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