This summer I have the great pleasure of cycling through Oxfordshire country lanes to get to work in the publishing archives that share a building with the Museum of English Rural Life, over the Berkshire border in Reading. I'm being immersed in English country sights, sounds and smells, and am enjoying it no end. (It … Continue reading Hearty and manly: Robert Gibbings’ Sweet Thames Run Softly
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Angela Thirkell’s Summer Half
Angela Thirkell is resurrected here from the Really Like this Book podcast scripts, for her wonderful, joyous, comic novel Summer Half (1937), in which the headmaster’s daughter gets engaged to the junior classics master, and causes mayhem by being horrible to him for the rest of the term. Other engagements also happen, because no Angela Thirkell novel is … Continue reading Angela Thirkell’s Summer Half
Kate Macdonald 