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Eight Books to Read in the Cotswolds
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The Cotswolds have been having a bit of a moment, these past couple of years. Rolling hills, chocolate-box villages, sheep, Jeremy Clarkson… what’s not to love? As someone who lives here (albeit the unf...
Get Thee To A Nunnery
Thoughts on In This House of Brede by Rumer Godden - plus some other nunnish books
‘I wish,’ said Dame Felicitas, ‘that someone would write a book about nuns as they really are, not as the author wants them to be.’
Easy Reads for Difficult Times: Late Summer '26 Edition
Two Scottish retreats, two lesser-known books by better-known authors, and two classics I really should have read sooner...
Hello, everyone - and a special welcome to my new subscribers! I’m always so happy to find other people who share m...
The Reading Pile - June/July 26
Penelope Lively, H.G. Wells, Gail Tsukiyama, and the joys of National Trust bookshops
Hi everyone, and welcome to my latest reading round-up. As I write, I have just hit 3,000 subscribers - for a Substack that’s only been going for a year...
Nine Children's Books I Bet You Haven't Read
Firstly - just a note to say thank you for the fantastic response to my suggestion of a Middlebrow Book Club - more to follow on that soon!
Firstly - just a note to say thank you for the fantastic response to my suggestion of a Middlebrow...
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