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Are You Sitting Comfortably? March Crime reads
It has been a whole entire year of Are You Sitting Comfortably? so to celebrate Rebecca and I have returned to our natural home – crime…ok, we don’t quite fit the profile for gangsta criminals but we do love a ruddy good mystery and wanted to return to where AYSC began: with a good old Agatha Christie. We picked three popular Agatha Christie novels (also included in her own top…
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Are You Sitting Comfortably? February’s suggested further reading sponsored by Smith and Munson
Smith and Munson Mother’s Day collections It was wonderful to chat to our guest author, Georgina Moore, about her debut novel, The Garnett Girls. Four women all on a quest to explore what love really means to them and make peace with their past and present – I loved how this novel explored each of their journeys and shifting senses of identity. Huge congratulations to Georgina who became a…
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Are You Sitting Comfortably? February reads with Smith and Munson
Rebecca F sent me the most exquisite tulips last year and I have never forgotten them. With tulip fever dreams already blooming around us I knew that this fifth generation British company were the perfect sponsors for this month’s subject of Family. Smith and Munson were founded in 1949 in South Lincolnshire and are now fifth generation flower growers. It all began with George Smith, whose daughter Hilda married Jack…
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Christmas Reads
A Book Bundle of Joy for Christmas and beyond by Rebecca Fletcher Some years ago, I was writing a magazine feature about Christmas when I came across an Icelandic tradition which struck me as the perfect festive pastime. Deciding there and then that the closest I might get to visiting Iceland any time soon was prizing open the heavily frosted door of the freezer, I became an adoptee of this particularly lovely Christmas Eve…
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Further Suggested reads “Reputation” sponsored by Julia Brendel
I don’t know about you but I found that there was definitely food for thought this month with our theme of Reputation. From the devilish deliciousness of Becky Sharpe from Thackeray’s Vanity Fair and Sarah Vaughan’s brilliant female characters in her latest thriller, Reputation, to a wonderful cast of women of many talents, skills and much courage in Kate Mosse’s Warrior Queens and Quiet Revolutionaries, their voices whether in fiction or in real life,…
