ONLY CONNECT
EM Forster
Howards End
In the end,
all stories
are about love
Angela Young
The Aristocrat & the Able Seaman
The Countess of Rothes, Thomas Jones, and the Tragedy of Titanic
When Titanic left Southampton in 1912, neither the Aristocrat, The Countess of Rothes, nor the Able Seaman, Thomas Jones, imagined meeting, let alone navigating a tiny lifeboat together at night, among towering icebergs.
The History Press
Publication date: 26th March 2026
Available in Hardback and Ebook
Angela’s Monthly Column
Booking Through Thursday
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 nominate to be the best...Continue reading→
Happy Christmas
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 Oliver Twist every night this...Continue reading→
Soul food
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 gift today. I posted about...Continue reading→