Digging into the women writers of WW2 led me to the short stories of Anna Kavan whose life and work…
The second half of: “The Island,” by Tove Jansson. Part one is here. It’s a rickety structure, one pays for…
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All the islands I have known become one island whose Eastern coast spreads sandy arms to welcome bathers and sea…
I did, in the first weeks of the war, before I got my commission, suffer severely from 'evacuees'.- Evelyn Waugh in…
‘Oh, I know all about goats,’ Sonia was saying. ‘People give them the same recommendation as the billeting officers did…
"What are you doing in the wardrobe?" "Narnia business" C.S."Jack" Lewis spent childhood years in a house in Belfast where…
All our stories begin before we are born. Not Just the blue eyes or flat feet we inherit, but the…
It’s always fun when a tiresome book about the rules of the English language gets debunked and when some clever…
I was first drawn to Anna Kavan’s writing through her collection of wartime stories I Am Lazarus (1945) - the…