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Kate Macdonald

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A Visit to Don Otavio, by Sybille Bedford

Science fiction & fantasy reviews

Nicholas Hilliard, by Elizabeth Goldring

Babette’s Feast and Other Stories, by Isak Dinesen [Karen Blixen]

Crafting a path through illness, by Germaine Hypher

Architect Errant, Clough Williams-Ellis

Letters to Gwen John, by Celia Paul

New novel on NetGalley!

Spent, by Alison Bechdel

The Meteorites, by Helen Gordon

Meeting in Positano, by Goliarda Sapienza

Margaret Irwin’s Stuart novels

Shocking Life. The Autobiography of Elsa Schiaparelli

Visa for Avalon, by Bryher

A brief advertising break

Of Monsters and Mainframes, by Barbara Truelove

Mouthing, by Orla Mackey

The Author List

A Bullet in the Ballet, by Caryl Brahms and S J Simon

Hester, by Mrs Oliphant

On the Calculation of Volume, I and II, by Solvej Balle

Stone and Sky, by Ben Aaronovitch

Books about Japan

Child in Chile, by Bea Howe

Upon A White Horse, by Peter Ross

Arbiter of Elegance, by Bea Howe

None So Pretty, by Margaret Irwin

The Last Battle, by C S Lewis

The Magician’s Nephew, by C S Lewis

The Horse and his Boy, by C S Lewis

The Silver Chair, by C S Lewis

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, by C S Lewis

Prince Caspian, by C S Lewis

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, by C S Lewis

C J Sansom: my progress so far

Lady Susan, by Jane Austen

The Waiting Game, by Nicola Clark

Enchanted Wood, by Kristin Bluemel

The Underworld, by Susan Casey

Calling China

These I have definitely enjoyed

Brief interlude to talk about ME

The Hunt: looking for complications in Portland

Dark Orbit, by Carolyn Ives Gilman

Reviewing ‘The Hunt’: a new series

The Rector and The Doctor’s Family, by Margaret Oliphant

Ring the Hill, by Tom Cox

Carpe Diem, by George Bradley

Susannah Gibson, Bluestockings

Books I have hated recently

John Clute, The Book Blinders

Katherine Addison, The Tomb of Dragons

Charmian Clift, Mermaid Singing, and Peel Me A Lotus

Two medieval murder mysteries, with floods

The Magickal Summer of Evie Edelman, by Harriett de Mesquita

Quartet, by Leah Broad

John Galt, Annals of the Parish