CHRISTINE POULSON Trollope Archives

Which is your favourite Trollope novel?

Posted on Apr 28, 2015 in The Last Chronicle of Barset, The Palliser Novels, The Way We Live Now, Trollope | 6 Comments

It’s many years since my career took a surprising, not to say wrong, turn and I found myself catching the train from Birmingham to Solihull every day to my job in the Tax Office. This was in my early twenties and it was so long ago that smoking was still allowed in the office – though only […]

Leaving York without a book?

Posted on May 23, 2014 in Framley Parsonage, Minster Gate Book Shop, The Way We Write, Trollope | No Comments

Yesterday I went up to York for the day to meet my friend and web designer, Madeleine, for lunch. My train got in an hour before hers so I wandered around the shops, feeling nostalgic for the days when I met my mother there. Some of the places we used to go to don’t exist […]

The Time of my Life

Posted on Mar 3, 2014 in Catcher in the Rye, Dickens, Jane Eyre, Middlemarch, Proust. Jane Austen, rereading, Salinger, The Great Gatsby, The Hobbit, Tolstoy, Trollope, Wuthering Heights | 4 Comments

I don’t want to read Catcher in the Rye again – or Salinger’s short stories – though I was impressed by them when I was around twenty. Nor am I tempted to reread Wuthering Heights (though Jane Eyre is another matter). I won’t be returning to The Hobbit or Lord of the Rings or Mervyn […]

Holiday Reading

Posted on Nov 8, 2010 in Anne Zouroudi, holiday reading, P. J. Parrish, R. J. Ellory, Trollope | 4 Comments

It’s always hard to know which books to pack when space is at a premium. Recent holidays have been spent in Northern France so it has just been a matter of slinging a bag of books in the boot of the car. But this time we were going to China so there was a real […]