Here are the books that I enjoyed most in 2021. You can read about those I liked best in 2020 here. Biography/memoir/autobiography/history The Element of Lavishness, Letters between Sylvia Townsend Warner and William Maxwell was a Christmas present from 2020 that got shunted into the waiting room while I read her letters to and from … Continue reading The Good Books 2021
Category: Elizabeth Jenkins
Michael Jenkins’s A House in Flanders
I would normally avoid reading books described smugly as ‘a gem’ or ‘like Alain-Fournier’. I once tried Les Grand Meaulnes, universally worshipped as a perfect evocation of a boy’s coming of age in rural France, and could not get into it at all. I also don’t much care for ‘gems’ of books, since the word … Continue reading Michael Jenkins’s A House in Flanders
Kate Macdonald 