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RT @London_W4: I’ve been having a think about this for some time. I’ve avoided doing it, but as I’ve looked around, I’ve seen that I’m one….
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RT @IanCallaway352: #DateAGirlWhoReads. But maybe not one who wants to psychoanalyse you. You don’t want to give up all your secrets. #Book….
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And then will come the applause, the applause for the greatest extra-legal coup of all time. And, Mr Bond, the world will rock with that applause for centuries.
“Man has climbed Mount Everest, gone to the bottom of the ocean. He's fired rockets at the Moon, split the atom, achieved miracles in every field of human endeavor. except crime!”
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"The Tommies were besieged for autographs".May & June 1945, Liberation Supplement and Souvenir of the Royal Visit to Jersey, CI. Published by the Jersey Weekly Post @JEPnews .The Channel Islands were the only British territories to suffer German occupation - and harsh.
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Dr. Murkes gesammeltes Schweigen 👍.
Considered one of Germany's foremost post-World War II authors, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1972 for his novels and short stories. Heinrich Böll.December 21, 1917 – July 16, 1985
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Caroline Blackwood born #OTD 1931 -1996. What a life, inc being married to Lucien Freud in the 1950s. Great Granny Webster (Pan 1978), dynastic Gothic tale: the hard matriarch, lunacy, oddness. Booker-prize nominated, rejected by Larkin as too autobiographical. #Readmorewomen
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“This is a five. It costs ten.”.You always keep your first copy of Catcher In The Rye!.Written by the troubled J D Salinger. First published #OTD in 1951. This Penguin reprint 1964. Didn’t fully understand it until reaching the age when Salinger wrote it, aged 30.
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Bulfinch’s Mythology - fable, chivalry and Charlemagne. Classical tales popularised for an American audience. Extraordinary & invaluable reference work on the myths & legends of history. First in 1855 compiled & written by Thomas Bulfinch born July 15 1796, d 1867. Hamlyn 1969.
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Dr Anita Brookner, born in London #OTD 1928, d 2016, art historian primarily, well-known novelist second. Best known for Hotel du Lac, won the Booker Prize 1984 to the disappointment of the JG Ballard camp) in which the cardiganed Edith chooses between the frying pan & the fire.
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“Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.'.Scoop, Evelyn Waugh, 1969 Penguin, Quentin Blake.
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#thicktrunktuesday #tree .Not too thick, with a hole in the middle, olive tree outside Robert Graves' house in Deia.
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Not forgetting her project with Barney, the Plow King!.
Linda Ronstadt celebrates her birthday 🎂 today. One of the best singing voices of the 20th century, she has charted 36 albums, ten top-10 albums, and three number one albums in the US. Ronstadt’s impressive , bilingual versatility had her exploring many genres including
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Arnold Newman, photographer. ‘The surroundings had to add to the composition and the understanding of the person.’.The Great British, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1979, includes Iris Murdoch (born #OTD) glaring into the lens.
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Who remembers?.Sch - you know who.#Schweppes used to be the sponsors of the court drinks at #Wimbledon
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“Intellectuals, I have noticed, are apt to dislike in her novels what they regard as such signs of whimsy, even of sentimentality. They misunderstand, or do not bother to be aware of, the unobtrusive seriousness…”.John Bayley IRIS (1999). Iris Murdoch, born #OTD 1919, d 1999.
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Born in Australia #OTD in 1938, publishing legend Carmen Callil, d 2022. "Australian, B.A. wants job in book publishing" opened a door through which she could transform traditional publishing ideas & support a feminist agenda. Founded Virago Press in 1973. Here’s a few.
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