Authors, Sales, reading, Jane Austen, Newsletter, books, Literary Snapshots 01 Dec 2018 A Literary Christmas Charles Dickens’ character, Scrooge thinks giving gifts is all humbug, but I love the idea of exchanging gifts at Christmas… Susannah 2 Comments
Authors, Newsletter Competing designs for the Mary on the Green sculpture campaign. index.shtml 01 Dec 2018 A Mary Wollstonecraft Statue Did you know that more than 90% of the statues around London feature men? Some of those are writers –… Susannah 7 Comments
Newsletter, books Bellingshausen Base, Antarctica. 01 Dec 2018 Do people insist on telling you the ending? I was intrigued to read recently of a stabbing in Antarctica, the first such attack ever recorded on that continent.… Susannah 4 Comments
Recommended Reading, Newsletter, books One of two rooms in the w:Musée de l'Orangerie containing some of Monet's Water Lilies. 01 Dec 2018 Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies Two of my favourite rooms in the entire world are those in the Orangerie Museum in Paris which hold Monet’s… Susannah 4 Comments
Poets, Authors, Poems, Newsletter The Jabberwock, as illustrated by John Tenniel 01 Dec 2018 Poem of the Month, December 2018 – ‘Jabberwocky’ Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll ’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the… Susannah 2 Comments
Book of the Month, Monograph, Authors, Recommended Reading, Charles Dickens: The Masterpieces, Literary Snapshots Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol 17 Dec 2018 A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens Every Christmas the historic Morgan Library in New York, puts on display one of its greatest treasures – the original… Susannah No Comments
Book of the Month, Monograph, Authors, Recommended Reading, Literary Snapshots Muriel Spark The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 17 Dec 2018 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark First published in 1961, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie brought Muriel Spark international fame. Time magazine chose it in… Susannah No Comments
Events, Newsletter, books Shelf of Georgette Heyer books 01 Dec 2018 Georgette Heyer: A Perpetual Delight In my teens I read and enjoyed the Regency novels of Georgette Heyer. I then decided I’d outgrown them and… Susannah 5 Comments
Book of the Month, Monograph, Authors, Recommended Reading, Literary Snapshots 17 Dec 2018 Middlemarch – George Eliot Virginia Woolf described George Eliot’s Middlemarch as “one of the few English novels written for grown-up people”. Do you agree?… Susannah No Comments
Book of the Month, Monograph, Authors, Recommended Reading, Literary Snapshots Nancy Mitford Love in a Cold Climate 17 Dec 2018 Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford Come with me to Mitford-land and the amusing, entertaining and madly eccentric world of Love in a Cold Climate. There… Susannah No Comments
Book of the Month, Monograph, Authors, Recommended Reading, Literary Snapshots Anthony Trollope Dr Thorne 17 Dec 2018 Dr Thorne – Anthony Trollope One summer evening in 1852 Anthony Trollope found himself in the cathedral city of Salisbury on post office business. He… Susannah No Comments
Book of the Month, Monograph, Companion Guide, Authors, Recommended Reading, Literary Snapshots EM Forster Room With A View 17 Dec 2018 E.M. Forster & ‘A Room with a View’ Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries many English citizens travelled to Italy and even settled there. Some went for… Susannah No Comments
Book of the Month, Monograph, Authors, Recommended Reading, Literary Snapshots Anne Bronte Tenant of Wildfeld Hall 17 Dec 2018 The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë Oscar Wilde once described a second marriage as “the triumph of hope over experience”, and these words are only too… Susannah No Comments
Book of the Month, Monograph, Authors, Recommended Reading, Literary Snapshots Agatha Christie Murder on the Orient Express 17 Dec 2018 Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie Bring together a luxury train, a snowy landscape outside, a corpse on board, a group of suspects trapped in a… Susannah No Comments
Book of the Month, Monograph, Authors, Recommended Reading, Literary Snapshots Daphne duMaurer Rebecca 17 Dec 2018 Daphne du Maurier & ‘Rebecca’ Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca is a novel with two heroines, though one is nameless and the other is only a… Susannah No Comments
