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BEYOND THE AIRING CUPBOARD
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Troubled Blood – Robert Galbraith / Death At The Sign Of The Rook – Kate Atkinson
How many pages can you read whilst a saucepan of peas cooks do you think? As it turns out, quite a few. I know as I have done it. Usually my current book stays beside my bed, except during lockdown times when there was a downstairs book and an upstairs book. However, I lived (I […]
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The Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Maybe it depends upon whether you are an optimist or a pessimist as to whether you follow RM Ballantyne’s portrayal in ‘The Coral Island’ of children castaway on a tropical island, not only surviving but thriving or the anarchic picture in William Golding’s ‘The Lord of the flies’ of lost boys becoming tribal and murderous. […]
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The Land of Sweet Forever – Harper Lee
Lots of writers, artists and composers are known by the general public for one work, think of Widor and his Toccata, Dukas and the Sorcerors Apprentice, Ravel and Bolero, Munch for his ghastly picture ‘The Scream,’ JD Salinger with ‘Catcher in the Rye’ and then there is Harper Lee. Harper Lee (1926-2016) is famous, hugely […]
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