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BEYOND THE AIRING CUPBOARD
Book reviews, poems, general musings and more!
‘And now let us welcome the new year,
full of things that have never been.’
Rainer Maria Rilke
Latest Posts
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Half-priced pleasure
I have bought 2 hardback books lately, chosen from the round display tables in Waterstones. I’m pleased with my purchases but they pose several questions. Both books were first published in 2025 and here they are already, vastly reduced, indeed literally half the original price. Do publishers almost plan for this eventuality? I would not […]
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Birdcage Walk – Helen Dunmore
At a recent U3A session that I go to about poetry, prose and plays, someone read a poem by Helen Dunmore. I hadn’t thought about this author for a long time but I knew I had book of her poetry. I found it, enjoyed dipping into it and realised there was a poem at the […]
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The Librarians
I receive the Persephone Letter each month. Persephone being a bookshop in Bath. It is always interesting and informative: books, art, history, architecture. It tries to avoid politics but doesn’t always succeed! At the end of this letter (with an apology) there is a link to a programme about the current goings on in school […]
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