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• Woman Reading

  

  Here's yet another artist who I'd never heard of until I came across this. He is Josef Loukota (Czech, 1879-1967). He seems to have painted lots of... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Zig-Zag Girl by Elly Griffiths

  

  I'm fond of crime novels set in Britain's post-war years, and I've enjoyed Elly Griffiths' Ruth Galloway series, so this should have been a winner. Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Five Children on the Western Front by Kate Saunders

  

  I hope some children today still read E. Nesbit as avidly as I did, and my own children did.  I loved everything of hers, but a particular favourite was... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Woman Reading

  

  This is Portrait of Mademoiselle Marie Fantin-Latour (1859) by Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836-1904). According to the tumblr site where I found it, ... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey

  

  The artist is always for himself alone, allegedly a MONK, a PRIEST or KING, in spite of which assertion he was always seeking a woman who would let him lie... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Bookshop Book by Jen Campbell

  

  I was doing some proofreading recently for the latest edition of Shiny New Books,  and when I read Jen Campbell's piece on this book for the BookBuz... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Home Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  

  I must confess I don't often buy a Persephone book. Not that they aren't lovely and desirable, but the combination of high price and postage overseas tends to... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Woman with Book

  

  This is The Contemplative Charmer, kindly sent to me by Ruth Marler, who found it on the website of the Geffrye Museum in London (where, though a Londoner,... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Research by Philip Kerr

  

  'Being a writer is a kind of elegant sociopathy, that's all. I don't know how else you'd describe a person who doesn't care about other people very much, who... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Black-Eyed Blonde by Benjamin Black

  

  I thought there wasn't much more damage that could be done to me that hadn't already been done. You get hardened by life knocking away at you since you were... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Women in Autumn

  

  I've been away from my computer for a week and though I managed to schedule some reviews, I didn't schedule a post for Saturday, the day I usually put a... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Trespass by Rose Tremain

  

  If you left your own country, if you left it late, and made your home in someone else's country, there was always a feeling that you were breaking an invisible... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Poets' Daughters by Katie Waldegrave

  

  I have to admit that when I got this for my birthday last month, I was a bit unsure how much I would get out of it. Having spent more than a decade studying... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Late Night Reading: New Banner Image

  

  Here's the full size version of the new banner image, which was painstakingly reduced by me to the requisite 950x248 pixels, though unfortunately the black... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Trophy by Steffen Jacobsen

  

  All life has a price. So says the cover of the edition of this Danish bestseller that I was kindly sent by the publisher. Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Sycamore Row by John Grisham

  

  After rediscovering John Grisham a couple of weeks ago, I was keen to read some more, and Sycamore Row, his 2013 novel, seemed like the way to go. Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Monogram Murders

  

  One of my favourite contemporary crime writers updates the work of one of my (and almost everyone else’s) vintage crime writers. What could possibly go wrong? I... Read more

  Posted on 23 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Archive Day

  

  I didn't know it was Archive Day till I saw it on Annabel's blog -- she's always up to the minute with everything! Actually it was probably yesterday, but here... Read more

  Posted on 19 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Letter to Sister Benedicta by Rose Tremain

  

  Somewhere over there on the ether (Savidge Reads, to be exact), A Rose Tremain fest is going on. I haven't joined in, not because I don't love her books, but... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Book of Life

  

  If you'd asked me, a few years ago, whether I wanted to read a book about witches and vampires, you would have got the most definitive no. Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2014 BOOKS, CULTURE