The Book Trunk

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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Tuesday, 12 June 2012

Lonely Londoners

On a grim winter evening, when it had a kind of unrealness about London, with a fog sleeping restlessly over the city and the lights showing...

Monday, 11 June 2012

A House-Husband and a Working Woman

When my brother and I were very young, my mother used to turn the dining room lino into a skating rink, or the frozen Arctic wastes, and we ...

Saturday, 9 June 2012

A Right Royal Knit-Wit (Saturday Snapshot)

And now for something completely different for this week's Saturday Snapshot... a Not The Jubilee Knitted Queen! I spotted the pattern i...

Friday, 8 June 2012

The Company She Keeps

I love Mary McCarthy's 'The Group', and her autobiography, 'Memoirs of a Catholic Girlhood,' but I could not get along ...

Wednesday, 6 June 2012

Do You Clean Vegetables With Soap?

Today's novel was described as 'a real oddity' and 'a book unlike any other' when it was discussed on the Radio 4's ...

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