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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Monday, 30 September 2013

A Disappointing View of Childhood

Who remembers reading Ballet Shoes, White Boots, Curtain Up, The Painted Garden, The Circus is coming, and all those other wonderful Noel...

Sunday, 29 September 2013

Short Story Sunday: Wartime Again...

Sunday morning is here again, so I shall try to gather my thoughts and decipher my notes and come up with a few brief comments on some tale...

Thursday, 26 September 2013

A Bookish Gift, all the Way from Australia!

A parcel from Australia! Woo hoo! The postman arrived a couple of days ago with a package for me, all the way from Australia, and a lov...

Tuesday, 24 September 2013

An Enchanting Book of Memories

I meant to write this up in advance and schedule it to appear yesterday (oh, how can I begin to describe the delights of the New Laptop, ...

Friday, 20 September 2013

A Forgotten Novel That's Best Left Undiscovered!

It’s not often I give up on book, but I gave up on Hilaire Belloc’s Mr Petre . Actually, I was going to say I’m sorry to admit I didn’t f...

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