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#OneToFollow – Bookish (and travel) Social Media accounts for your delectation. We are all pretty much stuck at home at the moment. I know that I am in a groove, following and interacting with the same people on Social...
The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner, novel set in Chawton, near Alton, Hampshire. I listened to this on audio and revelled in the dulcet tones of actor Richard Armitage. The author has brought together a delightful assemblage of...
#TalkingLocationWith…. Molly Gartland, author of The Girl From The Hermitage – St Petersburg and Moscow I spent the summer of 1993 in St. Petersburg. I was a student, studying Russian living in a dormitory near Prebaltiskaya Metro station. I...
Black Water Lilies by Michel Bussi, murder mystery set in Giverny. Translated by Shaun Whiteside. You couldn’t possibly set a novel in Giverny without copious references to Claude Monet, his life and work. and ponder his influence on the...
Attending Hay Festival 2020 via Crowdcast – author Maggie O’Farrell (Event 11) #imaginetheworld Organisations across the world are becoming so creative (I guess they have to adapt) in these days of Coronavirus. Who would have thought that such a big...
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