Category: British Library
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Hello all Random Readers and my thanks for your patience. I have now emerged blinking in the sunlight and feeling human again. This happened a day or so ago when I got out of bed and thought "something is wrong" and then I realised that was was wrong was that I felt alright, if that…
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One of the joys of the British LIbrary Classic Crime series has been the discovery of E C R Lorac (she also writes under the name of Carol Carnac) and becoming acquainted with Superintendent Macdonald. Murder in Vienna was published in 1956 and has long been out of print. I managed to get hold of…
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E C R Lorac who also writes under the name Carol Carnac is one of my favourite crime authors unearthed and brought back into the public eye by the British Library Crime Classic series. Pretty sure when they started this series off they did not expect it to be so popular or do so well,…
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I am getting really tired of January and the cold weather. Winter seems to have gone on for a long time this year. I have been in Cambridge this week for a couple of days and the driving there was hampered by road works and the return journey not much fun as ice on the…
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A few years ago I discovered Freeman Wills Croft mainly through the auspices of the Classic Crime series published by the British LIbrary. I read a huge amount of them and found them totally engrossing. One of the first titles I read was Mystery in the Channel. The Chichester is making a routine journey across…
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A good week with three books published by three favourite authors. The first was Crook O'Lune by E C R Lorac, one of the writers rediscovered and republished by the British Library Crime Classics. Not all of them, interesting thought they are, have been to my liking but this author I do like. I read…
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I seem to have fallen into a pattern of one post a week and I keep feeling this will not do but I have had another of "those weeks" with loads on and a few irritants. Next week is looking a bit dubious as well as I am having a boiler and hot water tank…
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At the moment there is a hashtag on Twitter #beathebacklog as a whole slew of book lovers are trying to get their To be Read backlog reduced. Nobody thinks for one moment that it is ever going to happen but we thought we would see if we could get it down a bit. I have…
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I am currently enjoying Murder by the Book, a recent publication by the wonderful British Library Crime classics, and contained therein is a short story A Savage Game by one A A Milne. We all know who A A Milne is (incidentally I have always wondered what A A stood for – it seems it…
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The last eighteen months have been rather odd reading wise, for me at least, as I have found myself taking comfort from re-reading a lot of titles and series. I am currently ploughing, though that sounds as if it is difficult to do so when it is the opposite, the Bill Slider series by Cynthia-Harrod-Eagles…
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I don't know about you dear readers but I am finding it pretty hard at the moment to concentrate on anything but I decided I really must make the effort. So a cup of tea to hand and a bar of chocolate (I am not of the mindset to worry about calories at the moment)…
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I have just realised the days are moving quickly and I will soon be in 2021 before I talk about my reading this year. So here goes with the second lot. The Crown in Crisis; the Countdown to the Abdication by Alexander Larman. This is one of the best, if not the best, of all…
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It is a cold dark afternoon and I have revived the custom I instigated last year of spending such afternoons in my Boudoir AKA my bedroom. It is all very comforting and rather cosy and I am writing this on my bed wearing the latest in lounge wear from Marks & Spencer which I have…
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I was sorting out my TBR pile the other day and had a sort out of those I was sent and did not particularly want (charity shop beckons) and those I pass on to friends as I think they may like them and I am not going to read them, and then those which I…
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I have been reading in a very desultory fashion the last couple of months. I have found it impossible to settle down and concentrate. Isn’t it odd when you think you are going to have all this time and so we can do some really serious reading and then find you really can’t be bothered?…
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After my first foray into what I understand is called ‘vlogging’ which I always think sounds vaguely unsavoury, I received good feedback and nice emails and messages and though it was meant to be a one off to discuss Helen’s book, I was asked to do more so I have. I am talking today about…
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I am doing a lot of crime reading during the lockdown and by the time freedom beckons I reckon I will have a pretty good idea how to forge bank notes, bash somebody over the head with an axe and get away with it. Not that I am planning to do so of course… I…
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If there was any reason needed for me to love British Library publishing any more than I do already, being an aficionado of their Classic Crime series, then here is another one. A series of books under the umbrella of The British Library Women Writers. These are novels by female authors who enjoyed popularity in…