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For My Own Amusement – R.F. Delderfield

I’ve spent the last few days working through R.F. Delderfield’s autobiography For My Own Amusement, a suitably obscure volume by an author who, after some popularity, appears to have been entirely for… more →

The Captive Reader

A bookshop made for R F Delderfield — 4 comments

whistlesinthewind wrote 1 month ago: R F Delderfield (1912-1972) was a popular writer with a talent for telling epic, decade-spanning nov … more →

Tags: Books, Film & TV, Devon, Diana, Bookshops, Mary Morris, Andrew Davies, Lord Byron

Monday Soapbox: Epic Novels — 10 comments

Jackie wrote 1 year ago: The word ‘epic’ is trendy now. It’s replaced “fab”, “phat” and “awesome” as a description for someth … more →

Tags: Fiction: Historical, Entries by Jackie, Thursday Soapbox, Fiction: 20th Century, epic novel, Sagas, James Clavell, James Michener

For My Own Amusement - R.F. Delderfield — 16 comments

Claire (The Captive Reader) wrote 1 year ago: I’ve spent the last few days working through R.F. Delderfield’s autobiography For My Own Amusement, … more →

Tags: Non-Fiction, Memoir/Biography

Prolific — 2 comments

Tracey wrote 1 year ago: Yesterday I wrote a little over 1,800 words. I’ve been averaging about 1.5k words (5 pages) pe … more →

Tags: writing, Jack London, how many words do you write in a day, Stephen King, Tom Wolfe, J. R. R. Tolkien, edmund morris, Erle Stanley Gardener, Victor Hugo

TO SERVE THEM ALL MY DAYS

ruthyr wrote 2 years ago: NOVEL: TO SERVE THEM ALL MY DAYS – R. E. DELDERFIELD/Washington Sq./Simon & Schuster … more →

Tags: World War II, Spanish Civil War, World War I, English Public Schools, Wales, Devon, Headmasters, History, history teachers

BTT: The Great Unknown — 4 comments

Claire (The Captive Reader) wrote 2 years ago: Who’s your favorite author that other people are NOT reading? The one you want to evangelize for, th … more →

Tags: Booking Through Thursday