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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mayhem and murder, but I was having an end of year tidy-up in the electronic filing room, when I found a folder full of unpublished and unfinished posts.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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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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Carols and Mulled Ale
For Day Three of the Advent Bookfest I couldn’t resist the carol singing field-mice in Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows. Ratty and Mole are returning to River Bank after Badger has rescued them from the Wild Wood, when Mole hears his old home calling him, so they head there instead. They hear scuffling…
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Light, Frothy, and very Enjoyable!
Shy, well-read Laura Horsley faces unemployment when the book shop she works in closes down, but she is persuaded to help run a literary festival at a stately home in the country and is expected to entice famously reclusive Irish author Dermot Flynn out of his self-imposed isolation to attend the event. There you have…
The Book Trunk 