Stella Gibbons : Enbury Heath

Cold Comfort Farm, the book for which Stella Gibbons is best known, was published in 1932 when she was thirty. It is an extraordinary book for a thirty-year old; sophisticated, witty, a wonderful satire of Thomas Hardy, Mary Webb even D H Lawrence. It has been made into films, plays and audio books, and remains a favourite novel of many readers. Not many readers know that she published about twenty-eight books in her lifetime, as well as poetry and journalism. I am gradually dipping into her books, in no particular order, as they cross my path.

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In the good old days:

Change of Season Haiku

above

the dead leaves

huge golden moon

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a black umbrella

flapping on the road

spine shattered

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spring rain

a little glint of rainbow

on the smallest cloud

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Elizabeth Jenkins: The Tortoise And The Hare

Anthony Horowitz : The Twist of a Knife

As my days are currently being consumed by a deep de-cluttering, I am only capable of reading books that require little thought. I dropped into the library for some crime reading and, even though I said I wouldn’t do it again, came away with the latest Anthony Horowitz.

Keigo Higashino: Malice

First impressions of Dracula…

Deidre shoved Dracula into my school bag as we were leaving. She put her finger to her lips and I knew it was one of those books. A secret.

I read in bed by torchlight. It was dull at first,

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