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Lucia

17 October, 201610 October, 2016 CalmgroveLeave a comment

winter Lucia over-wintering in Fishguard harbour, Pembrokeshire

Travel

16 October, 201610 October, 2016 CalmgroveLeave a comment

Gallery of photo reposts with a travel theme: train, bike, digger, van and carousel

Someone of her own

Joan Aiken: The Cuckoo Tree Illustrated by Pat Marriott Red Fox 2004 (1971) Our young heroine, Dido Twite, has finally returned to England after years away in “furrin parts overseas” but instead of a calm steady progress from the south coast to London, her place of birth, we find her hurtling in a death-defying dash […]

Not dead yet

Independent Bookshop Week 2018 will take place 16 – 23 June. IBW is part of the Books Are My Bag campaign, and seeks to celebrate independent bookshops in the UK and Ireland. The death of bookshops — and in particular independent bookshops — has been announced several times in the last few years, but it […]

Breaching the fourth wall

Edmund Crispin: The Moving Toyshop Heron Books Library of Crime 1981 (1946) Imagine a locked-room mystery in which everybody seems to have a cast-iron alibi and access to the murder victim appears impossible. Now imagine a scenario with the fourth wall torn away, or at least the veil between the actors on the stage and […]

“A small slipshod girl”

I’m about to begin (again) The Cuckoo Tree, another of the titles in Joan Aiken’s Wolves Chronicles — also known as the James III sequence or, as I like to think of it, the Dido Twite series, after the character who takes a lead role in all but four of the novels. This particular instalment […]

Literary influences

As some of you know, I don’t as a matter of principle get involved in blogging awards because, being a bit of a maverick, I’d much rather be composing an original post than feeling constrained by the questions that inevitably accompany these awards. But a recent literature-based question posted by Ola on receiving a blogging […]

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