Category Archives: Charles Dickens

What I Read In May

Posted on 29 May 2022 by Henry Gee

Emma Healey: Elizabeth Is Missing I actually read this (and Little Egypt, below) in April, but squeezed it in at the very end during a weekend in which I had to see a man about a dog (no, really) so … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Trying to Get Away from It All

Posted on 28 March 2013 by Athene Donald

I’ve been away briefly this week, to an extremely cold and windy Suffolk coast.  Not the kind of break one comes back from tanned – other than with wind-burn – or with skiing fractures, but remembering there is a world … Continue reading →

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