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

▼

Tuesday, 11 August 2015

The Land of Green Ginger

Another Virago for LibrayThing’s All Virago All August challenge. And I think this one will do nicely for the What’s in a Name challenge o...

Saturday, 8 August 2015

Tears, Lies - and Ice Cream!

My 1990 edition of A Little Love, A little Learning. The cover shows Weisse Vase Mit Heidekraut by Oskar Moll. The year Aunt Hat ca...

Wednesday, 22 July 2015

A Doomed Love Affair

I’ve never read any Elizabeth Bowen before, and I didn’t quite know what to expect from The House in Paris , with its themes of love, sex...

Sunday, 19 July 2015

The Wine of Solitude

The Wine of Solitude, published in 1935, translated into English by Sandra Smith in 2011, The Wine of Solitude is a sad sort of book,...

Friday, 17 July 2015

French Connections

Paris! The Eiffel Tower is an instantly recognisable image of the city, and this photo (which I took a few years back) conjures up memori...

View web version

Powered by Blogger.