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Books I’m reading, books I’ve read, books I’ve lost, books, books, books, books…
The Man in the Iron Mask, by Alexandre Dumas which continues the adventures of the musketeers he had previously written about in his romantic and exciting novels. However there really was a man who was imprisoned for thirty-four years whose identity was concealed… not by an iron mask but by a black velvet one. There […]
MoreJust browsing in a bookshop, a favourite occupation, and I had one of those silly moments when you mis-see something. There was a display of classic novels and I was surprised by the cover picture for the novel… except I hadn’t looked carefully enough… This liaison looks extremely dangerous! ‘Pride and Prejudice’ takes on a […]
MoreI am rather taken with unexpected doors, doorways, gates, stairs leading nowhere, bricked up entrances… and this one; it’s a door in a wall that I walk past several times a week in our village. The wall is neat and well-maintained, but it is too high to see the house beyond it. I’m sure there must […]
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Lois Elsden 