The Book Trunk

Second World War

  • Singing – with a Girdle in her Hand!

    October has been a funny sort of month, when I don’t seem to have got into my reading or writing stride at all. I started well, but I was at my Mother’s for a bit earlier in the month, and… Continue reading

  • Bittersweet Tales of WW2

    Good Evening, Mrs Craven, by Mollie Panter-Downes, has to be one of my ‘best reads’ of 2011. Here are 21 short stories set in the Second World War, about the people who didn’t fight, the non-combatants, who kept the home… Continue reading