Blogs in February 2022

Norwegian Wood 18th February 2022

“A step-by-step guide to preparing your wood store” Independent Whether you’re a seasoned woodcutter, or your passion is yet to be kindled, NORWEGIAN WOOD is an entertaining guide for year-round wood management, and the perfect gift. Chopping and stacking...

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Around the World in 80 Books: A Literary Journey 20th January 2022

Inspired by Jules Verne’s hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard’s Department of Comparative Literature and founder of Harvard’s Institute for World Literature, set out to counter a pandemic’s restrictions on travel by exploring eighty exceptional books from...

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In Foreign Fields: How Not To Move To France 19th January 2022

Susie and Terry dream of living in France. The dream comes true, but not in the way they had imagined. Yes, the countryside is spacious and peaceful. On summer nights the stars skim the rooftops, the owls hoot and...

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The Journal of a Tour to Corsica and Memoirs of Pascal Paoli 18th January 2022

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its...

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Out of the Quill Box 9th January 2022

Cathy, brought up in a ‘comfortable’ home in the 1950s, was at the age of seven, suddenly told that she had been adopted as a baby and assured by her mum that the other mother who had given birth...

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