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This site is dedicated to my grandmother, who ran away from her Norwegian home in 1915 and arrived in England with nothing but a trunk full of books.

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Book Challenges

  • A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
  • A Sentimental Journey, Laurence Sterne
  • An Irish Reading Challenge
  • Human Chain, Seamus Heaney
  • The Brendan Voyage, Tim Severin
  • The End of the Road
  • The Irish RM, Somerville and Ross
  • The Secret Scripture, Sebastian Barry
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OUT OF THE BOOK TRUNK (Archive)

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      • Be Nice to your Turkeys this Christmas...
      • Stitching a Picture of the Past
      • Carols and Mulled Ale
      • Minced Pyes
      • Gifts that Cause a lot of Noise and Mess...
      • A Song for Christmas
      • King John's Christmas
      • Mayhem,Murder and Dionysian Frenzies
      • All the Christmases are One
      • The Green Knight
      • The Country Child's Christmas
      • A Perfect Christmas Read
      • The Year's Midnight
      • Merry Christmas - in Nine Languages!
      • Shakespeare and Company
      • Christmas Comfort with Mr Pickwick
      • Journey of the Magi
      • Radio, Poetry - and Christmas!
      • A Grumpy Old Man with an Unusual Job
      • An Astounding Christmas Truce
      • Celebrating Christmas
      • Christmas comes to Narnia
      • Bittersweet Tales of WW2
      • A Disappointing Read
      • Abandoning Baking for Books
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A Good Read: Book Blogs

  • a gallimaufry
    i'm in conversation with an authoress, please advise
  • A Penguin a week
    Penguin no. 2024: Maigret Mystified by Simenon
  • A reader's footprints
    Nothing to Envy
  • A Work in Progress
    Hotel Paradise by Martha Grimes
  • Book Snob
    The Great Gatsby
  • BOOKS AND MOVIES
    Book Review: The Office of Mercy by Ariel Djanikian
  • Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
    Jung Chang writes 'groundbreaking' new biography
  • BooksPlease
    Recent Additions – Waiting to be Read
  • Cornflower Books
    Books and gardens - a meme
  • dovegreyreader scribbles
    Beating the Bounds ~ Holloway by Robert Macfarlane, Stanley Donwood & Dan Richards
  • Fiction Writers Review
    The Unsaid Meaning of Writing: Don’t Write
  • Fleur Fisher in her world
    Aleta Day by Francis Marion Benyon
  • Gaskella
    The Great American Dream?
  • Geranium Cat's Bookshelf
    Intermission
  • Harriet Devine's Blog
    Dead White Males (The Aspern Papers)
  • heavenali
    The Folding Star – DNF – and giveaway result
  • Howling Frog Books
    The Echoing Green
  • I prefer reading
    Mr Standfast - John Buchan
  • Leaves & Pages
    My World: I’m still here! Well, sort of…
  • Letters from a Hill Farm
    Today's essay by Maxine Kumin
  • Life must be filled up
    Mr J’s Peony
  • Lizzy's Literary Life
    European Literature Night 2013
  • MarysLibrary
    Seven Books
  • Mirabile Dictu
    Awards and Quote of the Week
  • Miss Darcy's Library
    Desperate Romantics
  • Musings
    Review: A Glass of Blessings, by Barbara Pym
  • My Porch
    Barbara Pym Reading Week is almost here
  • Random Jottings
    More Madeira
  • read_warbler
    Three quick reviews
  • Reading 1900-1950
    Getting (a little) technical: NGrams
  • Savidge Reads
    Savidge on Sabbatical
  • Seagreen Reader
    Amanda and the Eleven Million Mile High Dancer by Carol Hill
  • Shelf Love
    The Lion’s World: A Journey into the Heart of Narnia
  • Stuck in a Book
    The Help (in which I step off my high horse)
  • Tales from the Reading Room
    Julie and Romeo
  • The Argumentative Old Git
    Prince Hal, Hamlet, and Antony: parallels and contrasts
  • The Captive Reader
    Library Loot: May 22 to 28
  • Thyme for Tea
    Bookshelves
  • Travellin' Penguin
    Bill Bryson- Funniest Guy on Earth? My thoughts.
  • Vulpes Libris
    All that remains …
  • Why I Really Like This Book

To Do With Words...

  • Oxford Words

The Write Thing: Author Blogs

  • Author Phillipa Ashley
    Look what arrived in the post…
  • Brief Encounters
    Radio Gaga released today
  • Justine Picardie
    Magnolia blossoms for Charlotte Bronte's birthday
  • Marcus Sedgwick
    An incident that occurred in my shed this morning...
  • This Itch of Writing
    Plain and perfect, rich and rare: what is "lyrical" writing?

Book Buy

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Not a Book Site

  • Spitalfields Life
    The Tower of Old London
  • Life on a Small Island
    Chooks and clouds....
  • miladysboudoir
    Watery North Devon Literary Connections
  • Lichfield Lore
    Curiouser & Curiouser
  • Elizabeth Ashworth - author
    A Brief History of Hornby Castle in Lancashire
  • Parisian Fields
    The man who gave Paris 50 fountains
  • From the Centre Manager's Desk ...
    Paula’s Walkers – Keswick to Barrow

In Print: Publishers

  • Bloomsbury
  • Persephone Books
  • Virago Press News & Blog
    WIN 5 limited edition copies of Blood & Beauty
  • Welcome to The Sundial Press

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