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- The Man Who Never Was by dovegreyreader scribbles on Nov 12, 2009
So I had Operation Heartbreak lined up to read and had heard Duff Cooper's son, John Julius Norwich, speaking at Dartington last year about his father, but I knew little about Duff Cooper himself, so time to head to the...
- Operation Heartbreak by Duff Cooper by dovegreyreader scribbles on Nov 11, 2009
Operation Heartbreak had sat unread on my shelves since it was first published by Persephone Books in 2004, but I've been browsing the books again with new eyes for this year's November reading and several have been a perfect fit....
- On W.G.Sebald by dovegreyreader scribbles on Nov 9, 2009
Once I'd read Rings of Saturn I bought all of W.G.Sebald's books. I then read Austerlitz and The Emigrants and still have Campo Santo and Vertigo left unread, saved as you do (well as I do) when I discover a...
- High Wages by Dorothy Whipple by dovegreyreader scribbles on Nov 4, 2009
'But there was a point below which Carmen and her colleagues would not go: they referred to this as 'the Whipple line', after Dorothy Whipple, a writer of popular fiction in the Thirties and Forties.' A quote from Carmen Calill...
- The World That Was Ours by Hilda Bernstein by dovegreyreader scribbles on Oct 18, 2009
When the 'Africa' theme came around for September's Endsleigh Salon gathering I was really spoiled for choice. I had dipped into several general books on the continent itself but none seemed to fulfill that need to know something specific and...
- Minnie's Room by Mollie Panter-Downes by dovegreyreader scribbles on Jul 21, 2009
Prompted by Julia Blackburn's mention of Minnie's Room : The Peacetime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes I headed for the Persephone shelves to find my copy and I'm very grateful to Julia for the reminder. I flitter and flutter about with...
