The Book Trunk

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  • A Barrowful of Bacon, and Coffee by the Tubload

    It’s September, and Elizabeth von Arnim’s Solitary Summer has run its course with the arrival of 500 soldiers (and their horses), who are being quartered at the farm, and 30 officers (plus their servants) who are staying in the house.… Continue reading

  • True Love and a Happy Ending

    When Hetty Longden arrives at her boyfriend’s cottage and finds him in bed with another woman she rips up the embroidered antique sheet which covers the couple, and drives into his expensive Porsche, wrecking her own car in the process.… Continue reading

  • Consequences – Beware of Spoilers

    If you don’t like spoilers, then don’t read this post, because I’m going to give away an ending! Now I realise that many of you don’t like to be told what happens in a novel, but I’ve always been quite… Continue reading

  • Literary Landscapes and Broken Computers

    September is here, and I am all behind-hand with everything, and my posts have been a little erratic – but the past few weeks seem to have been a permanent holiday, and we have had a wonderful time. First we… Continue reading

  • An Island Fit For a Crime Queen

    Burgh Island Hotel inspired one of Agatha Christie’s mostfamous crime mysteries This wonderful art deco hotel is on Burgh Island, in Devon, and was the setting for two novels by crime queen Agatha Christie, who lived in Devon and stayed… Continue reading