Reviews

‘One of those rare gems that comes to the reviewer out of the blue . . . enough twists to shame a cobra . . . the story fairly rips along, defying the reader to put the book down . . . Christine Poulson should be heralded as the fine entrant to the world of crime fiction she most certainly is.’ [Stage Fright]

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Truly a Reading Life

Posted on Jan 29, 2025 in Elizabeth Bowen, Jenny Uglow, Peter Blundell Jones, The Last Poets of Imperial Rome | 4 Comments

While shelving books of poetry on my new bookshelves, I came across a copy of a Penguin Classic, The Last Poets of Imperial Rome. I seemed to remember that there was something special about it, and when I opened it, I found this inscription ‘To my dear friend, Chrissie, “Youth’s the season made for joy,” […]

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Ten books set on the Home Front

Posted on May 7, 2015 in Anthony Powell, books set on the home front, Christiana Brand, Elizabeth Bowen, Joyce Dennys, Laura Wilson, Lissa Evans, Margery Allingham, Muriel Spark, Penelope Fitzgerald, Rennie Airth | 12 Comments

Time for another list! We had such fun last time that Moira at Clothesinbooks.com and I have got together again, this time to share our ten favourite books set on the Home Front. Mine are all set in WWII. Here goes . . . First up is Joyce Dennys’s Henrietta’s War (1983 – but written during the […]

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