Welcome to
BEYOND THE AIRING CUPBOARD
Book reviews, poems, general musings and more!
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Albert Camus
Latest Posts
-
Following
Do you follow authors? I find that I am doing that more and more. I am interested in the lives of writers and if I look them up, then inevitably I come to know what is going to be out next in their output. I have a line of Susan Hill books and of Penelope […]
-
Bad Girl Books
Walton Street in Oxford is an interesting street to walk down. You pass the turning to the Ashmolean, the Playhouse and the Randolph, if you are in need of posh tea, then there is the imposing OUP building, the fascinating Scharzman humanities centre and some very good cafes to have coffee or lunch. In amongst […]
-
Star of the Sea – Joseph O’Connor
Here we are in the mid-19th century in the ghastliness of the Irish potato famine. Anyone and everyone would have wanted to escape and some of them are on the ship ‘Star of the Sea’ heading for New York. Ireland is sometimes called the first British colony and the appalling treatment that landowners dealt out […]
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