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April’s Are You Sitting Comfortably with The Basket Company
The Potting Shed Murder The Basket Company is just the absolute perfect sponsor for this brilliant cosy crime novel “The Potting Shed Murder”. Yes. I am very, very excited. Paula Sutton – THE Hillhouse Vintage will be chatting all things murderous, Nofolkian and garden basketian (it’s an eclectic but winning mix) and we get to waft springily with beautifully crafted garden trugs whilst filling willow planters with the promise of…
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Are You Sitting Comfortably- November reads “Reputations” sponsored by Julia Brendel
What an absolute corker of a month! Three extraordinary books dealing with super strong female characters. We will be interviewing the super famous Sarah Vaughan about her latest novel (also about to be made into a tv series like her previous book “Anatomy of A Scandal”) as well as looking at Kate Mosse’s latest book “Warrior Queens and Quiet Revolutionaries”. The amazing textile designer Julia Brendel is kindly sponsoring this…
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Are You Sitting Comfortably Suggested further reads for October “New Beginnings”
What a live this week. What more could you ask for when the rain is lashing down than an evening of books and wine? Plenty of rooms with a view too with SJ Axelby’s beautiful ode to room portraiture in her collection of illustrations and vignettes into designers’ living spaces, Interior Portraits: An Artist’s View of Designers’ Living Spaces. Definitely the perfect accompaniment to any new beginning and an…
Are You Sitting Comfortably – October reads “New Beginnings” with The Uncommon
Yikes! This is a doozie of a month, I truly hope you are sitting comfortably and may I suggest grabbing one of these truly scrumptious cans of beauty, sipping at this delicious English fizz and diving into a world of new beginnings with the one and only wine lady extraordinaire @knackeredmother aka Helen McGinn and her brand new novel? Autumn is a time for reflection, as the trees shed their…
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September’s Suggested Further Reading with Betsy Benn
By Rebecca Fletcher What a bookish September we’ve had to open a new series of Are You Sitting Comfortably. I’ve found myself pouring over blurbs on the back of books thanks to our lovely guest Louise Willder and her witty exploration of the dark arts of persuasion and blurb writing in Blurb Your Enthusiasm. It’s a writer’s gem if you’re looking for tips and tricks of how to really hone…
