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Are You Sitting Comfortably November’s suggested reads
Rebecca and I are still crossing our legs after our brilliant conversation with Nina Stibbe for November’s Are You Sitting Comfortably. Honestly, Nina has such a talent for comic timing and witty observations – one of the best comic voices in the book world. Her diary of her year-long sabbatical from her life, Went to London, Took the Dog should be on everyone’s reading pile. It’s a love letter to female friendship,…
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Are You Sitting Comfortably? November Read
Went to London, Took the Dog by Nina Stibbe Well, it’s officially that time of year when the call of the armchair with a little glass of something is the only way to spend an evening. What better way to cheer up those rainy dark evenings than a side-splitting diary from one of the most sharp, wise comic voices in the bookish world. It’s twenty years since author Nina…
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Summer suggested reads with The Braided Rug Company
Summer reads are all about escaping into another world, whether you’re sitting on a sun lounger or snuggled up in an armchair. Here are our Are You Sitting Comfortably top reads – we’ve had our heads in a book to bring you the best of what’s on the shelves right now from a little magic to historical heists, summer get togethers, a troupe of dotty dachshunds and much more. …
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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…
