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I have been knitting again.

callmemadam
14 Apr 2021, 14:08
Found in Books 13: The Book Club Newsletter
Wow, you did well!

I used to have a lot of books by Helen MacInnes (spy thrillers) but gave them away at some time. Now I'd like to read some again and they've disappeared from charity shops. So, a…
mouse
14 Apr 2021, 11:26
Found in Books 13: The Book Club Newsletter
Well done, what a great purchase, extra satisfying because of the members newsletters.

I use Abe Books a lot for rare secondhand copies of the occasional book. A couple of good buys were a book on…
land_girl
13 Apr 2021, 14:46
Jane Austen, Lucy Worsley and me
We lived there when Rosie was a baby and I was working nearby. I had read all the books by then (Emma for A Level, the others out of choice) but I don't think I had read any biographies or letters…
callmemadam
12 Apr 2021, 14:40
Jane Austen, Lucy Worsley and me
Golly. Were you old enough to know much about it? When you drive through that part of Hampshire now, there are brown signs saying, 'Jane Austen Country'. Yet hundreds of books from the first edition…
land_girl
12 Apr 2021, 13:49
Jane Austen, Lucy Worsley and me
I lived in Steventon, briefly. My grandmother, who loved Jane Austen possibly even more than I do, was thrilled :)

I shall definitely read this.