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Writers and Lovers / Heart the Lover – Lily King
When I’m in bookshops in Manhattan, I’m always surprised at how foreign they feel. There will be shelves and shelves of authors I have never heard of and I realise it is only the classics and the seriously top bestsellers that make it backwards and forwards over the Atlantic. Then, just occasionally I find an […]
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Book Buying in Bath
An American quilt exhibition was the main reason for coming to Bath but book shops and book buying was also very much on the list. I have been meaning to visit the ‘Persephone’ bookshop for many years now. Pre-Covid, I have a clear memory of walking down Lambs Conduit Street in Bloomsbury and passing this […]
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Fly on the Wall
Sometimes I would love to have been a fly on the wall in the offices of various publishers, to hear and hopefully understand the decisions that are made there. Two cases in point: ‘The Explorers’ by Katherine Rundell, which I have just read at the behest of my 11 year old granddaughter runs to nearly […]
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