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.

Pages

▼

Monday, 9 September 2013

Greenery Street: A Road with a Life of Its Own

The street consists of thirty-six narrow little houses – all, at a first glance, exactly the same: and a mental picture of it generally inc...

Sunday, 8 September 2013

Short Story Sunday: Forbidden Love

It’s Sunday, so it’s short story time again, and this week I’ve abandoned Persephone for Virago and I’m dipping into Sylvia Townsend Warn...

Saturday, 7 September 2013

Wild Strawberries - Sweet as Saccharine...

The Leslies, who star in Angela Thirkell’s Wild Strawberries , lead a charmed life in their beautiful ancestral home, cared for by faithf...

Sunday, 1 September 2013

Short Story Sunday: A Flawed Treasure and a Good Mother

The Exile , by Betty Miller , is a little odd, and I didn’t really enjoy it, but it was interesting. Here we have the Moores, Edmund and ...

Thursday, 29 August 2013

Delightful Mrs Miniver

It was lovely, thought Mrs Miniver, nodding good-bye to the flower-woman and carrying her big sheaf of chrysanthemums down the street with ...

View web version

Powered by Blogger.