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BEYOND THE AIRING CUPBOARD
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September is a month of cooler mornings, longer shadows and the first sweater pulled gently from the drawer.
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Remarkably Bright Creatures – Shelby Van Pelt
This is a book that several people had told me that I should read, or expressed surprise that I hadn’t! So, I did, and strange story that it is, it will certainly not be quickly forgotten. The main reason for this is that overseeing the whole thing is a large Pacific octopus. He lives in […]
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Wild Dark Shore – Charlotte McConaghy
This story has a feeling of impending disaster as you turn every page. It is a thriller but maybe not what you might generally expect from that genre. The setting is an imaginary island called Shearwater, situated somewhere between Tasmania and Antarctica. It is based on the very real island of Macquarie which is a […]
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The Fell – Sarah Moss
This slim novel is a model of excellent, taut writing. It has the flavour, the stringency of a short story where words cannot be used lazily or with any extravagance. However, it is a novel, albeit a short one. 180 pages of intense thought; a tight story. A work of Covid times, focusing on what […]
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