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Loitering With Intent by Muriel Spark - and a challenge completed
Virago Modern Classic #537 “When I recall what happened to me and what I did in 1949, it strikes me how much easier it is with characters in a novel than in real life. In a novel an author inven… more →
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I Will Not Serve by Eveline Mahyère - and a challenge completed
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wrote 1 week ago: Virago Modern Classic #142 In 1957 Eveline Mahyère died by her own hand. The was thirty-two and she … more →
Loitering With Intent by Muriel Spark - and a challenge completed
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wrote 1 week ago: Virago Modern Classic #537 “When I recall what happened to me and what I did in 1949, it strik … more →
Rock Crystal by Adalbert Stifter - A Story for Christmas
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wrote 1 week ago: “One of the most beautiful of Church festivals comes in midwinter when nights are long and day … more →
Austen-fest Day 3 - Love and Friendship and Everything Austen Completed
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wrote 2 weeks ago: My everything Austen challenge is nearly done. Here’s the list: 1. Jane’s Fame by Claire … more →
Austen-fest Day 2 - Dancing With Mr Darcy
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wrote 2 weeks ago: I saw this book for the first time in the window of a local bookshop, went straight in for a closer … more →
Little Indiscretions by Carmen Posadas
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wrote 3 weeks ago: The cover promises a “Perfect blend of Agatha Christie and Pedro Almodóvar.” I couldn … more →
London War Notes 1939 to 1945 by Mollie Panter-Downes
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wrote 3 weeks ago: Just thre of Mollie Panter-Downes’ works are in print. All three are fiction. Virago have her … more →
Night Thoughts of a Country Landlady: Being the Pacific Experiences of Miss Emma Nightingale in Time of War presented by Edith Olivier and illustrated by Rex Whistler
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wrote 4 weeks ago: A very big title for a very small book! I must have walked past it umpteen times in the library. A s … more →
Castle D'Or by Arthur Quiller-Couch and Daphne Du Maurier
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wrote 1 month ago: Virago Modern Classic #509 Castle D’Or was the final, unfinished, work of the distinguished Co … more →
Instruments of Darkness by Imogen Robertson
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wrote 1 month ago: Two hundred years ago Thornleigh Hall, seat of the Earl of Sussex, dominated its surroundings. But t … more →
The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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wrote 1 month ago: Virago Modern Classic #50 Such a little book. Just 36 pages in my (earlier) Virago Modern Classics e … more →
The Victorian Chaise-Longue by Marghanita Laski
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wrote 1 month ago: It’s a couple of years now since I read my first couple of novels by Marghanita Laski – Little Boy L … more →
Away Fom The Bombs by Ricky Clitheroe
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wrote 1 month ago: Isn’t it wonderful how one book can lead you to another. Talking about Terence Frisby’s … more →
Arthur Rackham: A Life With Illustration
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wrote 1 month ago: Where I first saw Arthur Rackham’s illustrations is lost now in the mists of time: I have love … more →
Stone's Fall by Iain Pears
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wrote 1 month ago: “The church of St Germain des Pres, at the start of what was supposed to be spring, was a mise … more →
The Frozen Deep by Wilkie Collins
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wrote 1 month ago: I was thrilled to discover The Classics Circuit. What a wonderful idea! And I was even happier to di … more →
Brother Jacob by George Eliot
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wrote 2 months ago: Virago Modern Classic #312 Brother Jacob is George Eliot’s shortest and most obscure work. I … more →
Kisses on a Postcard by Terence Frisby
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wrote 2 months ago: I have found magic in stories of evacuees. Carrie’s War (by Nina Bawden) was one of my childhood fav … more →
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
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wrote 2 months ago: “My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Const … more →
