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Desperate Reader: The Colour of Hope - Jen Feroze
On the anniversary of lockdown starting, writing from a city that has never had lockdown restrictions fully lifted, this feels like the best...
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Desperate Reader: Sicilia - Ben Tish
This book turned up out of the blue when it was still cold and miserable back in the spring (thank you very much Bloomsbury), I spent a coup...
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Desperate Reader: Wilfred and Eileen - Jonathan Smith
' Wilfred and Eileen ' is the kind of book I'm quite Summer in February ' - Jonathan Smith wrote both the book and the screenplay so a...
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Desperate Reader: Pots and Pans
As a change from Georgette Heyer, and because I've spent much of my morning off trying to impose a bit of order on my kitchen (basically ...
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Desperate Reader: The Spirit of the Blitz - Paul Addison and Jeremy A. Crang
The effect the Blitz continues to have on the British, and perhaps specifically the English, imagination is one of the minor but consistent ...
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Desperate Reader: A knitting post
This is a very domestically inclined Week. I have family coming for dinner on Friday, there might be eight of us which is as many chairs as ...
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Desperate Reader: July 2021
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Desperate Reader: Belgian Beer Cake
This is the week all the bigger retailers have started rolling out Christmas. At this point it's a tentative affair; a few mince pies, some...
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Desperate Reader: Hex - Jenni Fagan
I'm getting out of sync with everything - not helped by a long night waiting for an engineer to turn up and turn off a fire alarm yesterday....
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Desperate Reader: Uneasy Elixirs - Virginia Miller
I didn't mean to disappear again - or at least I did in so much as I'm on holiday and haven't managed to settle to much reading and thought ...
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Desperate Reader: The Galton Case - Ross MacDonald
I enjoyed ' The Underground Man ' so much that I couldn't help but order the rest of the new Penguin Ross MacDonald's the moment I'd finish...
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Desperate Reader: Victoria Gibson at Shetland Textile Museum
It's difficult blogging on holiday, every time I look out of the window I get distracted, never mind the people to catch up with, walks to g...
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Desperate Reader: Off on Holiday
I'm off to the North for a couple of weeks (by which time I sincerely hope my post has sorted itself out) but until then it'll be pretty q...
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Desperate Reader: April 2023
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Desperate Reader: Not a Christmas cake
The last couple of weeks at work have been so busy that it's sometimes hard to remember that it's still only November (just). All the baking...
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Desperate Reader: January 2013
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Desperate Reader: Patience - John Coates
After enjoying ' The Making of a Marchioness ' so much I wanted something else similarly enjoyable and undemanding at which point I remem...
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Desperate Reader: Bodies From The Library
Much as I've always enjoyed Golden age crime fiction, I could know more about it, so the chance to go to the Bodies From The Library event l...
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Desperate Reader: Back in the garden
The one thing that I don't like about my city centre flat is it's lack of a garden, I adopted D's garden about five years ago which par...
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Desperate Reader: The Nordic Baking Book and The Nordic Cook Book - Magnus Nilsson
To add to the water pump woes, and the heat that makes it feel all but impossible to do anything, there's now an absolutely massive spider a...
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Desperate Reader: My Top 10 Books for 2024
It is probably 12th night - I see arguments for different counts on this - and definitely the end of Christmas. My tree will come down this ...
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Desperate Reader: Stoorbra Socks and some more thinking about Independent Publishing
I finished my Stoorbra socks, I love them, everybody who's seen them (my mum and her dog) loves them, as well as a few friends and relatives...
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Desperate Reader: 5 Women Writers Being Reprinted (and a lot more)
I had to go into town today, and as it wasn't particularly busy I had a wonder around in Waterstones which was nice, but as I tend to read m...
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Desperate Reader: Back from the (near) North
I've had a really lovely week in the Scottish Borders (complete with a day in Edinburgh) and now I'm back at home - and back within reach of...
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Desperate Reader: Warner Edwards Gin
On Saturday I finally made it to Falls farm in Harrington (Northamptonshire) to see the Warner Edwards distillery. I've wanted to do this fo...
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Desperate Reader: Missing In Action
One of the unexpected results of cataloguing my books is the growin...
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Desperate Reader: George Mackay Brown - Centenary Year
2021 has a few centenaries I'm planning on marking. There's Patricia Highsmith's which I know I should have celebrate din January, and who's...
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Desperate Reader: May 2018
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Desperate Reader: Charlecote Park and Upton House
I have wanted to return to Charlecote park for what turns out to be 3 years, mostly because of happy memories of the really excellent farm ...
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Desperate Reader: September 2012
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Desperate Reader: Private 12768 - John Jackson
I started reading this last November, I really am hopeless at themed reading though, for whatever reason they never are the books for the mo...
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Desperate Reader: Happy to be Home
Well we made it back from the borders in one piece despite the best efforts of the weather to keep us there. Admittedly had we not run out ...
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Desperate Reader: Charity Girl - Georgette Heyer #1970Club
I hadn't given the 1970 club much thought - works been busy and the commitments are stacking up, but mid week I had an idle look to see if H...
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Desperate Reader: Locked Down Again
After a very brief period of tier 2 restrictions for Leicester we're all back in lockdown, although this time I've decamped to my mothers. S...
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Desperate Reader: The Hawks of Delamare - Edward Marston
I'm kind of fascinated by how much I like this series of books and why their particular formula works so well for me. In theory, I wouldn't ...
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Desperate Reader: December ramble
Time is flying past, adjusting back to full-time work is quite a lot to take on board, especially as Waterstones doesn't go in for Bank holi...
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Desperate Reader: Uprooted with Edinburgh 'Christmas' Gin
I've spent the evening writing Christmas cards - which means I've left it a bit late (though not to late). It's one of those jobs I find a h...
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https://desperatereader.blogspot.com/2018/08/an-untouched-house-willem-frederik.html
Desperate Reader: An Untouched House - Willem Frederik Hermans
Translated by David Colmer I saw this mentioned in a couple of places, and ended up buying an E version of it without realising it was a n...
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Desperate Reader: Boxing day
Christmas is over for another year, this is always something of a relief to me. It's such an emotionally loaded day with so much preparation...
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Desperate Reader: Notebooks
This isn't so much a celebration of stationary, though who doesn't love a nice notebook, as another dispatch from my kitchen. This pile o...
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Desperate Reader: One Thousand And One Nights - Hanan Al-Shaykh
There must have been a point in my adult life when I actively started seeking out fairy tales again but I can't remember when it might hav...
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Desperate Reader: The Grand Sophy - Georgette Heyer
Still engrossed in Heyer (I might consider reading someone else in a day or two) and it's on to ' The Grand Sophy '. This one was a favo...
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Desperate Reader: At Christmas We Feast - Annie Gray
I have a growing collection of books about Christmas - I'm a sucker for them. Ghost stories, crime stories, seasonal tales of all sorts, boo...
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Desperate Reader: Mincemeat
If there is one thing I'd really like people to understand about wine, spirits, and beer (the things I sell for a living) it's that they com...
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Desperate Reader: Dinner With Dickens - Pen Vogler
There are points in every year when I look at the stacks of books that weigh down every surface in my sitting room (not just my sitting room...
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Desperate Reader: March 2025
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Desperate Reader: October 2024
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Desperate Reader: December 2019
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Desperate Reader: Home and some none bookish Puffins
Well I'm back from my travels, pleased to be reunited with my books, perhaps a little less pleased with the prospect of returning to work fi...
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Desperate Reader: The Chianti Flask - Marie Belloc Lowndes
My Second nomination for Cross Examining Crime's reprint of the year is a slightly odd mystery from the British Library Crime Classics seri...
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Desperate Reader: Advent
I've been thinking about Christmas a lot over the last few days - it's the time of year when friends start asking what I want for that and m...
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Desperate Reader: Murder by Candlelight - selected by Cecily Gayford
Why yes, I did actually buckle down and finally finishing a pile of half read books this weekend, and I'm continuing the good work into the ...
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https://desperatereader.blogspot.com/2020/02/phone-box-drama-with-russian-defectors.html?m=0
Desperate Reader: Phone box drama with Russian defectors - or something like that
Theres something appealingly (or appallingly depending on your point of view) incongruous about rural phone boxes that at first glance seem ...
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Desperate Reader: Dangerous Ages - Rose Macaulay
After enjoying ' O, The Brave Music' so much it felt like a good time to read Rose Macaulay's 'Dangerous Ages' - another book that I've bee...
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Desperate Reader: Byssus - Jen Hadfield
Back in my student days, so basically pre amazon, I worked in one of those discount bookshops which specialised in publishers over runs an...
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Desperate Reader: July 2023
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Desperate Reader: More Christmas Cakes
Christmas madness is in full swing at work (bless my father for asking if things were beginning to wind down now - they're not) it's also in...
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Desperate Reader: A Tangled Web - L M Montgomery
I really don't understand what the good people at Hesperus were thinking when they chose these covers; they are appalling to the point of be...
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Desperate Reader: Shetland Wool Adventures Journal - Volume 1
I've been waiting very patiently to read this new journal from Misa Hay - it came out whilst I was in Shetland, but beyond having a quick l...
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Desperate Reader: New Year
New year new beginnings and all that sort of thing. I'm at the end of 10 days off work which has been wonderful. The last couple of months o...
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Desperate Reader: November 2025
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Desperate Reader: Uncle Paul - Celia Fremlin
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Desperate Reader: 2011
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Desperate Reader: Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
After years of indifference towards Mr Dickens I've had my epiphany with ' Great Expectations' - unfortunately I'm given to understand th...
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Desperate Reader: The Naked Shore: Of the North Sea - Tom Blass
I found myself reading a lot (well, a lot more than usual) about herring and the North Sea last month because I'd promised to review some Sh...
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Desperate Reader: Scarweather - Anthony Rolls
I've been trying to spend as much time as possible outside whilst I've got some countryside to roam and there are otters and seals to be sp...
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Desperate Reader: January 2012
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Desperate Reader: Cookbooks - a wish list
I've spent the last few days more or less sofa bound with a particularly horrible cold - which has had its upside. The hacking cough, viciou...
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Desperate Reader: Love on the Brain - Ali Hazelwood
This doesn't come out until August and normally I wouldn't even mention it at this point, but I was first to grab a reading copy at work, th...
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Desperate Reader: The Monarch of the Glen with Douglas Laing's Rock Oyster
If you remember the tv version of 'Monarch of the Glen' forget it, all it has in common with Compton Mackenzie's work of comic genius is som...
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Desperate Reader: Whisky Galore - drinking song
Whisky Galore is on at the moment, it's one of my favourite films (and a very good book too) it's making me feel thoroughly seasonal (I'm ab...
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Desperate Reader: May 2019
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Desperate Reader: Knitting again
Given that we're well into the second half of May it's not particularly cheering that I could still happily be wearing this latest effort. T...
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Desperate Reader: A. S. Byatt
A very long time ago the friend I lost to cancer this summer gave me a collection of A. S. Byatt short stories as a Christmas present - I th...
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Desperate Reader: Packwood and Baddesley Clinton
When we went to Canons Ashby a couple of weeks ago we joined the National Trust. It's something I'd half meant to do for a while, turning up...
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Desperate Reader: Shetland Folk Tales - Lawrence Tulloch
I've been looking a long time for a book on Shetland folklore that's authoritative and enjoyable to read - I have a feeling Earnest Marwick'...
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Desperate Reader: More New Books
Back home from my mother's (she does the best turkey ever - fact) and have had a peaceful boxing day playing with my new books and antici...
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Desperate Reader: Advent - Anja Dunk
Yesterday was one of those days when almost everything goes badly, but I did manage to book a booster vaccine shot for 9.20am this morning -...
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Desperate Reader: The House of Elrig - Gavin Maxwell
Any regular reader will know I'm a fan of Gavin Maxwell, specifically his autobiographical works. I do have copies of 'A Reed Shaken By The ...
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Desperate Reader: A brighter prospect
Oh dear, I meant this post to go out on Saturday but I'm still miserable with my cold (and if it sounds like man flu than it probably is, b...
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Desperate Reader: 2024
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Desperate Reader: The Haunted Hotel - Wilkie Collins
Why is it that late Autumn feels like such a good time for a good bit of Victorian melodrama and sensation? I've been dipping in and out of ...
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Desperate Reader: 2018 a year of women?
I vaguely remember the debate around Kamila Shamsie's Challenge a couple of years back that 2018 should be a year that the book industry on...
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Desperate Reader: 2023
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Desperate Reader: Christmas Cake
I'm actually quite proud of this cake (although that may change when we actually try eating it, I mean it should be good seeing as I foll...
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Desperate Reader: Marple
Twelve new stories, twelve great writers, one Agatha Christie. This is another book that did well last Christmas in hardback and is now doin...
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Desperate Reader: Spirits of the Season with Brandy
My spirits of choice are whisky and gin, not the least of their attractions is that they're relatively easy to understand. Brandy is not my ...
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Desperate Reader: New Books
Now that I can realistically count down the time left at work before things calm down (four and a half days, thirty nine hours, or a lot ...
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Desperate Reader: Orange Juicers and the Bloomsbury set
I grew up in a house that my father inherited from his Godmother, She'd inherited it from her Uncle via her mother and spent many years bedb...
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Desperate Reader: The Black Spectacles - John Dickson Carr
This is the first book I've managed to finish since the beginning of September - it's been full on at work, mum had Covid and then ended up ...
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Desperate Reader: Fair Isle Weekend - Mary Jane Mucklestone
For a while I didn't think I'd be able to get a copy of this book - it's not a particularly cheap one and ordered direct from Laine (a Fin...
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Desperate Reader: Happy Christmas
Work is done, I have 2 days off, and I think I'm organised. We'll see. Meanwhile I just want to say happy Christmas, whatever you're doing ...
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Desperate Reader: Dear Reader - Paul Fournel
A book that could be summarised as being about a man who reads a lot of books about boys meeting girls, or sometimes girls meeting boys, who...
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Desperate Reader: A time of lists
November more than any other month encourages me to make lists, most of them are Christmas related and depressing as I almost never complet...
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Desperate Reader: December is here...
It might not look that good but it looks so much better than the last lot And I'm having another go at making my own mincemeat. I last h...
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Desperate Reader: Tanqueray's Bloomsbury Gin with Charles Dickens
I don't think I discovered Tanqueray gin until I found myself working for Oddbins (17 years ago today, it was a blessed escape from working ...
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Desperate Reader: Heartthrobs: A History of Women and Desire - Carol Dyhouse
Despite what they say about judging books by their covers I was instantly smitten with this one - I haven't managed to determine if the imag...
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Desperate Reader: The Unbearable Bassington - Saki
One of the highlights of my trip to Shetland was meeting Micheal Walmer, who has recently moved up there. We got a socially distanced walk b...
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Desperate Reader: A little bit more about The Fortune of the Rougons
So much is going on in ' The Fortune of the Rougons ' that it needs at least a couple of posts, significant portions of the book are spent i...
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Desperate Reader: Strange Relics - ed Amara Thornton & Katy Soar
It's October, which I'm reluctantly going to accept is now considered 'spooky' season - I do at least like a good ghost story or a bit of we...
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