The Book Trunk

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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

  • 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

  • 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 Nine Tailors

    The opening of The Nine Tailors, by Dorothy L Sayers, has to be one of the most atmospheric of any novel. Here we are in the wintry, bleak, isolated East Anglian fens with Lord Peter Wimsey: Coming a trifle too… Continue reading

  • Love and Secrets of a King and his Mistress

    Sex, love, murder, revenge, betrayal, ambition and hidden secrets are key components of all good sagas about feuding families – and England’s Plantagenet Kings provide enough drama for an entire library of such books. So here’s a round-up of three,… Continue reading