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Archive for November, 2007

From the past…

How exciting is this — I used alibris to track down one of my favourites from childhood, Ginny and the Mystery House.  I vividly remembered the storyline of the book and its cosy little events like the skating party and the hot cocoa in the kitchen.  Clearly, it has not been reissued as there was [...]

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On my Christmas Wish List!

The Mitfords: Letters between Six Sisters, ed. Charlotte Mosley, Harper, November 2007
If you have ever read Love in a Cold Climate, by Nancy Mitford (one of my personal favourites!), or Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh, you may be familiar with the famous Mitford sisters who flourished in London high society during the twenties and thirties.  [...]

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