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Flashback Challenge
I’ve been reading about all these book challenges that are going on and thought that it was about time that I signed up for one myself. The Flashback Challenge seems like a great excuse to re-read ‘old...
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Birthday books
I was lucky enough to be given a copy of The Gathering Night by Margaret Elphinstone for my birthday. This photograph of me reading it in our garden makes me look a bit weird I think, worryingly my...
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School for Love by Olivia Manning
I really like Olivia Manning‘s writing. Her husband was a British Council lecturer in Bucharest when World War 2 broke out and her experiences at that time led her to write a series of books which...
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Fortunes of War by Olivia Manning
Olivia Manning’s Balkan and Levant Trilogies are probably better known as Fortunes of War as that is what the BBC serialisation was named. The first three books were published separately between 1960...
View ArticleThe Rain Forest by Olivia Manning
The Rain Forest by Olivia Manning was published in 1974. The setting is the fictional island of Al-Bustan in the Indian Ocean. In fact it must be the island of Madagascar as there are lemurs in...
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The 1951 Club
I’ve read and blogged about quite a few books that were published in 1951 in recent years, so if you’re interested in my thoughts on them click on the titles. A Game of Hide and Seek by Elizabeth...
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The Doves of Venus by Olivia Manning
The Doves of Venus by Olivia Manning was first published in 1955 and it really couldn’t be any other era. I suppose that to young people reading this book will seem like ancient history as everything...
View Article20 Books of Summer 2017 update
I’m doing quite well with my 20 Books of Summer 2017 list this year although I had meant to do a bit of a half-way roundup before now. I have veered slightly from the list for various reasons, but I’m...
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Bookshelf Travelling in Insane Times
Bookshelf Travelling in Insane Times is a meme which was started by Judith at Reader in the Wilderness and it has turned out to be a really useful tour around my own books, often books that I’ve...
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