Books

Books I’m reading, books I’ve read, books I’ve lost, books, books, books, books…

Bloomsbury

In 1066 it had vineyards and pigs, in 1759 the British Museum opened there, but for many people Bloomsbury’s main association is with the Bloomsbury group of writers and artists, including the Woolfs, John Maynard Keynes, E.M. Forster, Lyttonn Strachey, the Bells and the Garnets. Fittingly, perhaps, Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes were married in […]

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Lois

Growing up, I was the only person I knew called Lois; my aunty had it as a middle name, and my great-grandmother was the ‘original’ Lois, but she died in 1930… long before I was born!! When we moved to the west country when i was 16, there was another girl lower down the school […]

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