I have to agree with others here. I had to force myself to finish this. There seemed to be a lot of meandering and no real point. I never did figure out what the subtitle referred to. If the author meant Violet Trefusis, he failed to show in any depth how her suspected illegitimacy harmed her or ...
"But then, inevitably, as happens to most of us, first through Saturday umpiring, later Sunday chapel, I was drawn into the changing picture of Oxgodby itself. But, oddly, what happened outside was like a dream. It was inside the still church, before its reappearing picture, that was real. I drif...
Independent gardening correspondent and presenter of Channel 4's Flowering Passions, Anna Pavord presents a compendium of helpful and thoughtful gardening advice, based on material from her weekly gardening column. Arranged by month this gardening companion features a plant of the month, jobs for...
This is a sad book. Holroyd has had enormous success which he doest mention at all, because of the failures of his parents in many ways. His father died old and supported by Holroyd, his mother dies early of cancer after an eventful life, and other family live too long and have miserable ends. Af...
the Hon. Frederick Guest, MP 637 The Rev. Padre Fray Jose-Maria Lozkoz Biguria de Elizondo 639 Viva 675 G. Bernard Shaw, Esq. (presented to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge) 1924 27 Princess Antoine Bibesco 127 Robert Fleming 630 Sir Charles Scott Sherrington, GBE, PRS, DSc. 1928 Elected Royal A...
As if to answer the question, my father, in the intervals from his career in France, would turn up at Norhurst with some devastating present – an air rifle, chemistry set, conjuring tricks or even golf club – and after a few flourishes and gestures, a few words of encouragement and a laugh, leave...