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Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – JK Rowling
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What do I want in a story?
Having just read Margaret Forster’s book ‘Is there anything you want?’ (and written about it,) I have been thinking around this tricky question … and also wondering if the answer has changed with age. There was a book I was reading recently that suddenly involved a situation in my life of which I didn’t want […]
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Is there anything you want? – Margaret Forster
This book was on my shelves with half a dozen others by the same author. I must have read it before but I really don’t remember it. Margaret Forster, who died a few years ago was married to Hunter Davies, writer for the Times and Sunday Times and (much more importantly) biographer of The Beatles! […]
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Thrones, Dominations – Dorothy L Sayers and Jill Paton Walsh
A short while ago I read the four novels by Jill Paton Walsh about her Cambridge quasi detective Imogen Quy. I loved them, and looking for more by the same author I came across novels that she had written with Dorothy L Sayers. With, and then by herself in the style of, once the older […]
I grew up in freezing cold Kent in the 1950s and early 60s. The airing cupboard was the one place to curl up comfortably and read. The cat sometimes chose to join me. He too knew where it was warm …
Susan Brice