Authors, Books, Jane Austen, Newsletter 1000 literary jigsaw 01 Feb 2018 Literary Jigsaw Puzzles Susannah 8 Comments
Authors, Books, Jane Austen, Newsletter Amanda Root as Anne and Ciaran Hinds as Captain Wentworth, Persuasion, 1995 Movie adaptation 01 Feb 2018 ‘Persuasion’ – One of the World’s Great Love Stories How about celebrating Valentine’s Day this month by reading (hopefully re-reading) Jane Austen’s Persuasion which has just turned 200? Her… Susannah 24 Comments
Authors, Books, Newsletter, Recommended Reading A cracking start to 2018 01 Feb 2018 A Cracking Start to 2018 Susannah 8 Comments
Authors, Books, Newsletter, Reading Kwaussie Graphic 01 Jan 2018 Being a Kwaussie The National Australian Dictionary chose as its ‘new word of the year’ a word that describes me aptly – ‘Kwaussie’… Susannah 6 Comments
Authors, Books, Jane Austen, Newsletter Library at Westbrook Station, Queensland, ca. 1898 01 Jan 2018 People and their Bookcases We recently had some guests over for dinner who had never been in our house before. (Which, by the way… Susannah 37 Comments
Authors, Books, Jane Austen, Newsletter Top Five Books of 2017 01 Jan 2018 My 2017 Favourites Susannah 14 Comments
Books, Newsletter Book plates belonging to Rudyard Kipling & Jack London 01 Dec 2017 Book Plates A book plate (sometimes known as an ‘ex libris’, from the Latin for ‘from the books of…’) is a small… Susannah 2 Comments
Books, Newsletter Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley 01 Dec 2017 About Mary Shelley Susannah 4 Comments
Authors, Books, Newsletter, tours Donna Leon, Commissario Brunetti Series 01 Nov 2017 Crime in Venice I have just finished reading the last of Donna Leon’s series of crime novels set in Venice. For years now… Susannah 18 Comments
Authors, Books, Newsletter Book of the Month Club newsletter from 1929 01 Nov 2017 Kristin Lavransdatter Susannah 2 Comments
Authors, Books, Monograph, Newsletter, Screen versions Daphne du Maurier & Rebecca 01 Nov 2017 Daphne du Maurier and ‘Rebecca’ Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca is a novel with two heroines, though one is nameless and the other is only a… Susannah 6 Comments
Authors, Books, Newsletter Book with bookmark 01 Nov 2017 Bookmarks For as long as there have been books, readers have felt a need to mark their place so that they… Susannah 22 Comments
Authors, Books, Newsletter Claire Tomalin and her new biography 01 Oct 2017 Claire Tomalin and Biographies In the lectures I give, I love to provide background to a novel or poem by telling my audience something… Susannah 12 Comments
Authors, Books, Monograph, Newsletter Reading 01 Oct 2017 A Reader’s Guide Have you read Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman? It is her first novel and is quirky, different… Susannah 14 Comments
Authors, Books, Lectures, Newsletter, Recommended Reading, Talks The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe 01 Oct 2017 The 18th Century – When the English Novel Began I am fascinated by the 18thC. It was bawdy, raucous and rough – the age of Hogarth and Fielding. Yet… Susannah 2 Comments
