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Hemingway Remembers Paris
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. These words, written by Ernest Hemingway to a friend in 1950, appear at the start of A Moveable Feast, which was completed…
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I Love Paris… A Guide to Paris that’s Older than Me!
I love Paris, and my mother and I have visited almost every year since my father died but she is no longer up to the journey, so this summer I’m staying in England. But I can still have a virtual trip, thanks to Karen who runs the Book Bath blog and Tamara over at Thyme forTea,…
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Short Story Sunday: Having a Lovely Time…
‘Ready?’ enquired Sheila, coming in to look her over. She herself was highly coloured, with dark curls, wet lips, green earrings and a full bosom. She wore a green gown and her black coat with civet cat collar. Oh, Miss Spence, you do look lovely!’ cried Alice. Sheila didn’t know what to say about Alice.…
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A Little Less Conversation Please!
Edward Hopper’s Room in New York… And there is a link to this week’s Short Story Sunday, I promise… Just read on… It’s Sunday again (it does seem to come round very quickly), and that means it’s time for another short story, so out of my wonderful Persephone anthology comes Here We Are, by Dorothy…
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Crime Ration with Maigret
I’m not the greatest fan of crime fiction – I don’t like descriptions of blood and gore – but I do like the Maigretbooks, and you don’t often see them around, so I was delighted to pick up three in the last couple of weeks. First there was Maigret and the Idle burglar, which I…
The Book Trunk 