Monthly Archives: December 2007

This Christmas Life, a poem by Wendy Cope

Posted on December 21, 2007 by angela

Wendy Cope’s Christmas poem is quite beautiful. I heard it on Radio Four on, I think, Saturday night last. As far as I can tell it was published a couple of years ago, but it is timeless. I can’t post … Continue reading →

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Booking Through Thursday

Posted on December 20, 2007 by angela

Today’s questions are: 1 What fiction book (or books) would you nominate to be the best new book published in 2007? (Older books that you read for the first time in 2007 don’tcount.)2 What non-fiction book (or books) would you … Continue reading →

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Happy Christmas

Posted on December 18, 2007 by angela

I hope you don’t think it’s too early … but I took this last night, after decorating it on the weekend. And now for the cumberland sauce, the brandy butter, the smoked mackerel pate (yes), the Dickens reread – or … Continue reading →

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Soul food

Posted on December 15, 2007 by angela

At the beginning of November Canongate said that the first 100 people who registered on THE GIFT site would receive a free copy of Lews Hyde’s The Gift. All you had to do in return was pledge to make a … Continue reading →

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Lady into Fox …

Posted on December 13, 2007 by angela

… this morning I went out into my garden (small L-shaped plot, actually) to take this picture … … because I just couldn’t help wondering how they survive in the frost. See here, some cyclamen tolerate frost very well, some … Continue reading →

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Booking Through Thursday, on Saturday …

Posted on December 8, 2007 by angela

… This week’s question is suggested by Island Editions: Do you have a favourite book, now out of print, that you would like to see become available again? (I have several…) Mine is The Agony and the Ego (click on … Continue reading →

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World Book Day, Book Groups and Speaking of Love

Posted on December 3, 2007 by angela

My publishers, the wonderful Beautiful Books, say that if you’d like, they will send you a free copy of Speaking of Love because it’s been longlisted for the World Book Day/Spread the Word award. The number of free copies is … Continue reading →

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