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BEYOND THE AIRING CUPBOARD
Book reviews, poems, general musings and more!
Now summer is in flower, and Nature’s hum
Is never silent round her bounteous bloom;
Insects, as small as dust, have never done
With glitt’ring dance, and reeling in the sun.
John Clare
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The Woman in the Fifth – Douglas Kennedy
My Douglas Kennedy shelf is in the bookcase in my hall. That row of books is quite full of itself. There are many hardback books and even the paperbacks are large. Somehow this seems quite suitable as these are big stories with a capital B. It also seems apt that they are written by an […]
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Fitzcarraldo
Fitzcarraldo is a small publishing house, only about 10 years old, based in Deptford, a yet to be gentrified area of London. It had ambitions from the very beginning: to remain independent, a tricky aim for any publishing company, and to specialise in literary fiction, in both original English and in translation. They were prepared […]
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Like it or not
Have you noticed how the word ‘like’ is now used in significantly different ways than a generation ago? I started to read up about ‘like’ and almost wished I hadn’t! There is so much going on with this word. I am quite aware that language ebbs and flows, changes, grows etc etc but this particular […]
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