Clothes In Books
Q: What makes an overcoat theatrical?
The Second Curtain by Roy Fuller
Antigua Penny Puce by Robert Graves
The Matchmaker by Stella Gibbons
No Direction Home – which way is best?
The Fascination of Seven Dials: for Carr and Christie
Compass directions, a children’s classic, and is North best?
The Man in the Moonlight by Helen McCloy
The Last Gifts of Christmas: Barbara Pym
A dress for a New Year party…
Panto, and why Petrova & Tania are the best
Bertie’s [belated] Christmas Eve by Saki
Shedunnit, Green Penguins and the Puffin Club
A Children's Party on Boxing Day
Christmas Day poem: Thomas Hardy's The Oxen
Christmas meat: Vegetarian trigger warning
A Matchmaking Christmas
Reprint of the Year 2: The Ten Teacups
Death at Christmas...
Decorating the Church for Christmas, again
Children, Christmas & Jane Austen's advice on parenting
St Lucy's Day, and more from Ember Lane
Reprint of the Year: Christianna Brand
Christmas Tree and Stella Gibbons
Death Comes at Christmas
Christmas in Trollope – decorating the church
Xmas book-lover gifts: Strong Words, Nemo & The Murder Game
Festive Cheer: Her Heart felt as cold as her hands…
The snow-bound village…. and a Christmas-y Mystery
Death by Theatre: Quick Curtain by Alan Melville
How boring is sailing?
Theatricals ahoy: Vintage Murder
Greece, Ambler, Stewart
Theatrical Murders, and a Trial in Three Acts
Only a Matter of Time by VC Clinton-Baddeley
Another Challenge Pic, and The Girls of Slender Means
What are we on about? Do we have some questions?
Murder, Gothic Castles and Undine
Adrian Mole and his mother
More Halloween More Apples
A Spooky Story for Halloween, and Apple Grabbing
Good Clues: Who is Simon Warwick? By Paricia Moyes
Growing up with Emma by Jane Austen
Mystery at the Villa Bianca by Mabel Esther Allan
Dancers in Mourning by Margery Allingham
Challenge Result: A Shilling for Candles
Before Lunch by Angela Thirkell (and hats again)
Shedunnit, and Trent’s Last Case
Ironing Nylon & a Hatshop: The Blue Sapphire by DE Stevenson
Anatomy of a Murder, and of attitudes to women
The Album by C Day Lewis
Black Wings has My Angel by Lewis Elliott Chaze
Jane and Prudence by Barbara Pym
Police at the Funeral by Margery Allingham
Reviewing for the i newspaper: The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman
Reviewing for the i newspaper: The Secret of Secrets by Dan Brown
More pictures to match up!
Hymn Tunes and a Bookshop and lost gems
Clothes in Books Day Out: The Barbara Pym society
Culture at the I newspaper: The best cosy crime?
What the maids wore: Dress Down Tuesday
Using up pictures and going on holiday: a challenge
More Jane Austen: Mansfield Park
Someone from the Past by Margot Bennett
More Hats - for matrons and garden parties
More on Rosamond Lehmann
Rosamond Lehmann, Ian Fleming, A Sea-Grape Tree
The Art of Wrapping Gifts by Drucella Lowrie
Harlequin House by Margery Sharp
Murder Among Children by Tucker Coe
Reservoir Noir and Long Hot Summers
The Right Honourable Corpse by Max Murray
More O Douglas/Anna Buchan: Day and Jane