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Great Dixter

Great Dixter gardens, East Sussex

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“A near-divine miracle”

Lucy Mangan: Bookworm. A memoir of childhood reading Vintage 2018 “[Y]ou simply never know what a child is going to find in a book (or a graphic novel, or a comic, or whatever) — what tiny throwaway line might be the spark that lights the fuse that sets off an explosion in understanding whose force […]

Interlace

As I’ve previously posted here April has so far proved to have been a Month of Random Reading, positioned as it is between a March of Readathons and a May of Fantasy. But, as is the way of things, my choice of reading has unwittingly pointed me in the direction of books that bear some […]

Tragicomic

James O’Brien: How to be Right … in a World gone Wrong WH Allen 2018 In Britain, as elsewhere, there is a sense of a great divide where once there was only a polite distance between different viewpoints. Undoubtedly exacerbated by social media — or at least, the manipulation and abuse of such media — […]

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April is proving to be a Month of Random Reading. Which is good, I think. Especially as May will be a month of fantasy reads under the Wyrd & Wonder banner. There are eight fantasy subgenres offered for consideration, and in this anticipatory post I shall be looking at them in a little more detail, […]

Flights of fancy

Mackenzie Crook: The Windvale Sprites With illustrations by the author Faber 2011 That is when the thought struck him. ‘I’ve found a fairy.’ Just like that with no exclamation mark. […] Not wand-waving Tinkerbells but sinewy insect-men: wild creatures that must be secretive and hardly ever spotted. A boy. A storm. An unexpected encounter. A […]

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