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June 18, 2020

VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: Chasing the Light by Jesse Blackadder

It′s the early 1930s. Antarctic open-sea whaling is booming and a territorial race for the mysterious continent between Norwegian and British-Australian interests is in full swing. Aboard a ship setting sail from Cape Town carrying the Norwegian whaling magnate [...]


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Published on June 18, 2020 15:00

June 16, 2020

Errombee

I have been watching & listening to the anger & anguish of the #BLM movement these past few weeks, with tears burning my eyes and a […]


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Published on June 16, 2020 20:37

BOOK REVIEW: Vita & Virginia by Sarah Gristwood

Virginia Woolf is one of the world’s most famous writers, and a leading light of literary modernism and feminism. During the 1920s she had a passionate affair with a fellow author, Vita Sackville-West, and they remained friends until Virginia’s death in 1941 [...]


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Published on June 16, 2020 15:00

June 14, 2020

VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: Longbourn by Jo Baker

You might also like to read my review of Jane Austen at home by Lucy Worsley: BOOK REVIEW: Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley


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Published on June 14, 2020 15:00

June 11, 2020

BOOK REVIEW: The House Of Dreams by Kate Lord Brown

In 2000, Gabriel Lambert is a celebrated painter who hides a dark secret. Sophie Cass, a journalist struggling to begin her career and with a family connection to Lambert, is determined to find the truth about his past and the little known story of the real Casablanca [...]


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Published on June 11, 2020 15:00

June 9, 2020

VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: Nine Days by Toni Jordan

One family. Nine momentous days. An unforgettable novel of love and folly and heartbreak.

It is 1939 and Australia is about to go to war. Deep in the working-class Melbourne suburb of Richmond it is business—your own and everyone else's—as usual [...]


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Published on June 09, 2020 15:15

June 7, 2020

BOOK REVIEW: Two Owls at Eton: A True Story by Jonathan Franklin

You might also like to read my review of The Wild Places by Robert MacFarlane here: VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane


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Published on June 07, 2020 15:00

June 4, 2020

VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: The Ashford Affair by Lauren Willig

New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig "spins a web of lust, power and loss" (Kate Alcott) that is by turns epic and intimate, transporting and page-turning. 

As a lawyer in a large Manhattan firm, just shy of making partner, Clementine Evans [...]


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Published on June 04, 2020 15:15

June 2, 2020

BOOK REVIEW: Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers

Mystery novelist Harriet Vane knew all about poisons, and when her former lover died in the manner prescribed in one of her books, a jury of her peers had a hangman's noose in mind. But Lord Peter Wimsey was determined to find her innocent.


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Published on June 02, 2020 15:00

May 31, 2020

VINTAGE BOOK REVIEW: Philosophy In The Garden by Damon Young

Why did Marcel Proust have bonsai beside his bed? What was Jane Austen doing, coveting an apricot? How was Friedrich Nietzsche inspired by his ‘thought tree'?

In Philosophy in the Garden, Damon Young explores one of literature's most intimate relationships: authors and their gardens [...]


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Published on May 31, 2020 15:15