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May’s Are You Sitting Comfortably? With Hattingley Valley
The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers by Samuel Burr Those who are regular readers (of our suggested novels and this website!) will know that I am slightly fanatical (but let’s call it passionate) about home grown brands. I love British companies and there is almost no greater pleasure in life than sitting in the sunshine reading a gloriously absorbing novel sipping a delicious glass of cold sparkling fizz so this month’s sponsor…
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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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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,…
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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…
