Tag: Rose Tremain
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Bookshop to bookshop railway
Or, what I did on my holidays We had booked a week in Settle. The aim was to ride up and down the Settle to Carlisle railway, finding great Yorkshire walks and interesting bookshops and above all, avoiding the internet and all things work and big-media related. We succeeded, and I came home feeling renewed.…
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Books and broligarchy
A couple of blogs ago, I wrote about a Rose Tremain novel that I’d missed… … that set me off looking through her works to see what else I hadn’t read, and I came across Islands of Mercy. More of that presently… This week, I wrote about what the Epstein files really show up, and…
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A shameful day for the English
One of the ironies of any work in publishing and the book trade is that, because your work involves a lot of reading, you’re always at least a decade behind on what ‘everyone’ has read. That’s why, now the book-work is down to a minimum, I like doing my occasional series of ‘reviews of old…
Kay Green 