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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
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Eleanor – Alice Loxton
Some non-fiction is good now and then, and when I dip into it, it tends to be art, history or landscape based. Here is some history that I just stumbled on half price in Waterstones. Alice Loxton is a young historian and writer and indeed this book could only have been written by someone who […]
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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 […]
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