Tag: Susan Hill
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April 2025
I have recently been down a long and convoluted Virginia Woolf shaped rabbit hole and what a fascinating journey it has been. It began with ‘The Memory Library’ by Kate Storey, (visit: beyondtheairing cupboard.co.uk to read my thoughts on that book and a musing about ‘Mrs Dalloway,’) and led me to have another go at […]
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3 Short Books
All of these were really impulse buys and 2 of the three were successful so that is pretty good I think. In Daunts beautiful bookshop in Marylebone High Street, where one could go simply to admire the gorgeous Edwardian architecture, they arrange their travel section in a very particular fashion. There is a bookshelf of […]
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May 2020
I love books and I love reading so I suppose it is no surprise that I am also very fond of books that are about reading. Maybe it shows me that I am not alone and that other people are as passionate and well, yes, maybe obsessive about this pastime as I am and really […]
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July/August 2020
All these extra hours and days that many of us have had over the past few weeks and indeed months, should have been an absolute gift to anyone who loved reading. However, for many it seems, this has been a slightly bewildering time. I have read of serious readers who cannot for the life of […]
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September 2020
I have no idea what made me pull ‘I’m the king of the castle’ off the shelves of my college library in Cheltenham in the early 1970s but it was the beginning of a deep interest in the writing of Susan Hill. I remember reading the extremely scary book late into the night and going […]