The Head Girl of St Bee’s: Alys Chatwyn, The Epworth Press

If Chatwyn had been happy to stick with ‘St Bee’s College’ – a school characterised as a hive, and its girls ‘bees’ ‘drones’ etc – that would be one thing. But ( Read more... )

I've slightly updated my icons at Dreamwidth and Livejournal.

The next book I intend to (re)read is 'The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society' in preparation for watching the film adaptation, coming out next month, I believe. I didn't know about the film until I saw the trailer.

I got hold of a Chambers hardback copy of this book (a reprint) - I wasn't struck by anything additional that wasn't in the paperback edition, but I haven't compared page by page or anything. (ETA: My Armada paperback is a 'revised edition' which was first published in 1970. Still couldn't tell you how revised it is, though.)

In this book, ( Read more... )

Edited on 17.1.14.