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If you liked this….Rebecca Fletcher’s picks for further Love and Friendship novels
Ah l’amour. It really has to be one of my favourite themes in fiction. Perhaps the reason why we’re all so obsessed with it, is that despite all its mystery and complexity, it’s the thing that connects us most as human beings? I couldn’t have felt that more chatting to our fantastic guest on Are You Sitting Comfortably this month, author of Conversations on Love, Natasha Lunn. Amongst many wisdoms…
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Are You Sitting Comfortably – Books on Love and Friendship- with Victoria Eggs Jubilee Collection-
Love and Friendship This month we look at books surrounding the theme of love and friendship. The two novels focus on unrequited love and childhood love, deep lasting friendships with blurred lines. Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip are surely one of the longest love stories of our age. A deep and lasting friendship that has survived through so much. There is a wonderful section in the wildcard book about sustaining…
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If you liked this….Rebecca Fletcher’s picks for further Rural Landscape novels
Landscapes can be so much more than backdrops to novels – they can become protagonist or plot driver. As Costa Award Novel Winner Claire Fuller, our special guest for this month’s Are You Sitting Comfortably? shared, the story of Jeanie and Julius in Unsettled Ground emerged from a photograph of an abandoned caravan her son had found in the woods. Who had lived there? What was it like to be on the…
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Are You Sitting Comfortably? With Gone to Seed – Rural Landscapes
Who better to sponsor our rural landscapes book blog than Gone to Seed – online specialists in dried and gift flowers. Founded by Luke and Elly Collings, whose wedding like so many recently, was rearranged three times. Finally able to hold a small winter wedding, the couple foraged for flowers and mixed them with dried stems and out of an exasperating situation arose a beautiful wedding and a fantastic new…
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If you liked this….Rebecca Fletcher’s picks for further Crime Novel exploration
Sponsored by Ibbi Marple or Poirot? Morse or Holmes? We’re obsessed with solving a good mystery. With crime being such a hugely popular and varied genre, it’s hard to pick favourites. Who knew there was such a thing as ‘cosy crime’? Murdered by macaroon perhaps? I wonder if that’s what our dear Agatha would be filed under nowadays. Whether it’s a candlestick in the library or a drop of arsenic…
