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Month: September 2019

Kathleen Jamie, Surfacing

Kathleen Jamie is a poet, but it's a curious thing: she never speaks about her poetry in her essays. I've read and reread her earlier collections Findings and Sightlines, and I've drenched myself in her new essays in Surfacing now a couple of times, but it's only just occurred to me that if you only come to Jamie … Continue reading Kathleen Jamie, Surfacing →

Kate 21stC, animals, archaeology, community life, essays, history, Kathleen Jamie, memoirs / diaries, nature, outdoor adventure, political / social commentary, sea stories, the world of work, travelogue 3 Comments September 16, 2019

Mary Kelly, The Spoilt Kill

This is a tremendous crime thriller from 1961, that won the Crime Writers' Association Critics' Award for that year. Mary Kelly went on to write more detective novels, but somehow her name has disappeared from sight. Crime fiction historian Martin Edwards says that she stopped writing fiction in her forties, because she chose when and what … Continue reading Mary Kelly, The Spoilt Kill →

Kate 20thC, community life, detective, family saga, fine art, Mary Kelly, passion and secrets, political / social commentary, sociology, the life of the times, the world of work, thriller 4 Comments September 8, 2019
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