Authors, Recommended Reading, reading, Newsletter, books My Book Notebook 01 Jan 2019 My 2018 Favourites I always love looking back through my ‘Book Notebook’ to see what books read in the previous year really stand… Susannah 23 Comments
Authors, Recommended Reading, reading, Newsletter, books CJ Sansom & Tombland 01 Jan 2019 The Brilliant C.J. Sansom With the plethora of murder mystery novels now available, some writers really try to be different in order to stand… Susannah 7 Comments
reading, Newsletter New Year's Day postcard mailed in 1909 01 Jan 2019 A New Year’s Resolution Susannah 5 Comments
Book of the Month, Monograph, Authors, Recommended Reading, books, Literary Snapshots 'Brideshead Revisited' - Evelyn Waugh 01 Jan 2019 Evelyn Waugh & ‘Brideshead Revisited’ Susannah 5 Comments
Poem of the Month, Poets, Poems, Newsletter Green Groweth the Holly, King Henry VIII 01 Jan 2019 King Henry VIII & ‘Green Groweth the Holly’ Everyone knows about King Henry VIII’s six wives and his destruction of the English monasteries, but did you know that… Susannah 4 Comments
Poem of the Month, Poets, Poems, Newsletter Green Groweth the Holly, King Henry VIII 07 Jan 2019 King Henry VIII & ‘Green Groweth the Holly’ Copy Everyone knows about King Henry VIII’s six wives and his destruction of the English monasteries, but did you know that… Susannah No Comments
Poem of the Month, Poets, Poems, Newsletter Green Groweth the Holly, King Henry VIII 07 Jan 2019 King Henry VIII & ‘Green Groweth the Holly’ Copy Everyone knows about King Henry VIII’s six wives and his destruction of the English monasteries, but did you know that… Susannah No Comments
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
Monograph, Companion Guide, Authors, Recommended Reading, Charles Dickens: The Masterpieces, Literary Snapshots A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens 28 Nov 2018 Companion Guide – Charles Dickens & ‘A Christmas Carol’ 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, 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
Monograph, Authors, Recommended Reading, Newsletter Girl reading, 1879, by Charles Edward Perugini 01 Nov 2018 Great Reading Continues Early this year I launched my Year of Great Reading course, and many of you have been receiving a Literary… Susannah 2 Comments
