Tag: World War II

  • Keep calm and carry on

    Everybody has heard this catch phrase which has been used, abused, modified and satirised for years. How many years? Well since 2000 actually, when the owner of a second hand bookshop in Northumberland found a World War 2 poster in a box of books he had bought at auction. He displayed it in his shop, […]

  • Still Life by Sarah Winman

    I stayed in bed this morning beyond what anyone would consider a respectable time on an ordinary Thursday in February, because I just had to finish the book I was reading. What a book! I urge you to buy, borrow or steal a copy. Well, ignore the last option but you get my drift. This […]

  • June 2022

    As a child, one thinks of truth as a completely black and white concept. Something is either true or it isn’t. As one gets older everything becomes more complicated and the black and white merge to very many shades of grey, more than 57, more even than on a Farrow and Ball paint card. The […]

  • Nella Last’s War

    The Second World War Diaries of Housewife 49 When I look at the cover of this book I am always in danger of reading it as Nella’s Last War, which would of course be a different thing entirely, although I think it actually must have been just that; her last war. So this is a […]