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| | | | | Fiction - paperback; Penguin; 112 pages; 2018. Translated from the Italian by W.J. Strachan. The Beautiful Summer by Cesare Pavese (1908-1950) won Italy's most prestigious literary award, the Strega Prize for fiction, in 1950. (The author sadly died by suicide a couple of months later.) It's the story of a teenage girl whose friendship with... | |
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| | | | | This time in the Really Like This Book podcast scripts catch-up I'm in the fourteenthcentury, immersed in a muddy Norfolk field at the medieval nunnery of Oby. The Corner That Held Them(1948) is a most peculiar and very readable novel by Sylvia Townsend Warner, author of the immortal Lolly Willowes.The Corner That Held Them is... | |
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| | | | | Novellas in November is a good time to tackle some of the backlog of Aussie titles from the 20th century. The late Helen Hodgman (1945-2022) was a Tasmanian author of six highly regarded novels.Jack and Jill (1978) was her second novel (after Blue Skies, 1976, see my review) and it won the Somerset Maugham Award.... | |
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| | | Provincial panorama :D :D :D :D :D On his way home from Edinburgh, antiquarian Jonathan Oldbuck of Monkbarns meets a young man, William Lovel, travelling in the same direction. They strike up a friendship and Oldbuck invites Lovel to Monkbarns and introduces him to his family and neighbours. One of the neighbours is Isabella Wardour, | ||