Category: Dean Street Press
-
I know I have mentioned D E Stevenson on several occasions but offer no apology for returning to her once more. It is a bitter cold January here in the UK and I have been hunkering down and trying to keep warm (my thanks to whoever came up with the idea of an electric throw)…
-
"giving pleasure or satisfaction; pleasant or attractive:" This is the dictionary definition of the word nice. I feel that sometimes this particular word can be used in a derogatory manner or to intimate something bland and uninteresting. But, as you can see from above, it can mean precisely what is says – giving pleasure or…
-
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…
-
I have had problems with the blog the last week or so as my host, Typepad, who I have been with for years, had a new update etc etc and like all updates it caused mayhem and the blog was unavailable. An irritant for me, but checking on Twitter I could see how upset so…
-
I am very busy the next couple of weeks and will also be in France but I have loved these books so much I am posting this so I can urge you to get your mitts on them ASAP. Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfield was published in 1936 and over fifty years later is still…
-
My birthday weekend and I am in Cambridge for a few days so no posting till I get back. I was due to arrive today but Daughter No. 2 insisted I drive over yesterday because of the storm due today. I am glad I did as the wind is now really getting up and I…
-
When I was a young mini skirted teenager I worked at Highgate Library in London. It was an old building, one of the Carnegie Libraries and I loved being there surrounded by books all day. It was a fairly well heeled area and we had a large amount of ‘mature’ ladies who used to come…
-
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…
-
This latest title by the wonderful Dean Street Press is really intriguing. And what is intriguing about The Invisible Host was the introduction in which we read that five years after a film was made of this title “there appeared a novel by a popular English mystery writer that bore and uncanny resemblance both to…
-
Stella Gibbons most famous book is Cold Comfort Farm which I had no desire to read at all and only did so after being urged to by fellow bloggers. So I read it, thought it was very good indeed but did not enjoy it at all and disliked nearly all the characters in it. And…
-
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…
-
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…
-
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?…
-
Last year Dean Street Press, who are rapidly becoming one of my favourite publishing houses, issued four titles by Moray Dalton. This is the pseudonym of Katherine Dalton Renoir who wrote 29 mysteries, the last in 1951. I know very little about her and it seems she lived on the South Coast of England for…
-
When I first started this blog some thirteen years ago now, I had such good intentions. I was going to read Serious Books. Books which were Good for Me by writers who were lauded as being the best. I looked at the Booker long lists, I chose, I read, I ploughed on. I took…