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Cosy Books: January 2015
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Meandering through twentieth-century England while filling my bookshelves along the way. Quotes from The Virago Book of Food: The Joy of Eating. Margaret was hungry, not tired. She went to the kitchen. As soon as one meal was over, she began to think about the next. Food had started to entrance her. Sharing a London Story. How is it possible there was a time when I shied away from short stories? Once they were out the door I poured a cup of tea and grabbed my new short story collection London Stories.
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Cosy Books: Read in 2013
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Meandering through twentieth-century England while filling my bookshelves along the way. Friends and Relations by Elizabeth Bowen. Jambusters by Julie Summers. The Boat by L. P. Hartley. Coral Glynn by Peter Cameron. The Nether World by George Gissing. Love's Civil War: Elizabeth Bowen and Charles Ritchie edited by Victoria Glendinning. The Love-charm of Bombs by Lara Feigel. 1939: The Last Season by Anne De Courcy. I'm Not Complaining by Ruth Adam. Every Good Deed by Dorothy Whipple. A Game of Hide and ...
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Cosy Books: August 2015
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Meandering through twentieth-century England while filling my bookshelves along the way. Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans. I Love. This. Book. It wasn't until I removed the hold slip at the library that I took a good look at the cover. Then there was a swift recollection of the author's name (when you work at a library you place holds on all sorts of things.really fast.between customers). Several years ago I thoroughly enjoyed Their Finest Hour and a Half. Or 'that church', she'd say, standing at the top of ...
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Cosy Books: Read in 2012
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Meandering through twentieth-century England while filling my bookshelves along the way. The Book of Christmas by Jane Struthers. Christmas Pudding by Nancy Mitford. War Damage by Elizabeth Wilson. Mrs Palrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor. The Wedding Group by Elizabeth Taylor. Beautiful for Ever by Helen Rappaport. The British Character by Pont. Manservant and Maidservant by Ivy Compton-Burnett. New Grub Street by George Gissing. The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen. The Hireling by L P Hartley.
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Cosy Books: Altered States by Anita Brookner
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Meandering through twentieth-century England while filling my bookshelves along the way. Altered States by Anita Brookner. The woman on the station platform had her back to me. If she had turned round I would have been able to satisfy myself that she was not someone I had once known.'. I am not even sure that my memory of her is exact, for I frequently winced at her cruelty until I learned to laugh at it.'. Alice Sherwood, a genteel Englishwoman, presented Alan with his current home, a flat on Wigmore St...
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Cosy Books: March 2015
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Meandering through twentieth-century England while filling my bookshelves along the way. The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher. This story, first published in 1924, flew in the face of convention by extolling the virtues of role reversal within the marital home. How could any decent housewife and mother abandon her post at the kitchen hob, the mangle, and clothesline for a paying job while her husband stayed home with the children? He looked at her keenly to see the effect of his announcement. 'I...
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Cosy Books: July 2015
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Meandering through twentieth-century England while filling my bookshelves along the way. Quotes from The Virago Book of Food: The Joy of Eating. The family group had already assembled round the breakfast table, with the exception of Lady Juliana, who chose to take that meal in bed; but, contrary to her usual custom, no Lady Maclaughlan had yet made her appearance. All was busy speculation and surmise as to the could-be. The Breakfast Table by Harold Gilman. Labels: Fridays Literary Feast. The case of Opa...
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Cosy Books: Read in 2014
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Meandering through twentieth-century England while filling my bookshelves along the way. Our Spoons Came From Woolworths by Barbara Comyns. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson. East Lynne by Ellen Wood. The Rich House by Stella Gibbons. The Greatcoat by Helen Dunmore. Together and Apart by Margaret Kennedy. My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier. The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters. A Perfect Woman by L. P. Hartley. The Girl at the Lion d'Or by Sebastian Faulks. Vera by Elizabeth von Arnim.
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