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Tag: Stella Gibbons

Review of ‘The Weather at Tregulla’ by Stella Gibbons

07/05/2022 nsford 6 Comments

This was a pleasant surprise. One of the author’s more obscure books, The Weather at Tregulla was the next to…

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Review of ‘A Pink Front Door’ by Stella Gibbons

02/03/2022 nsford 6 Comments

A charming if directionless little-known novel, first published in 1959. It’s not one of Stella Gibbons’ best but is quite…

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Review of ‘The Snow-Woman’ by Stella Gibbons

11/01/2022 nsford 7 Comments

Despite the cover design and the title, this isn’t a seasonal book. The snow is metaphorical, referring to the protagonist…

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Review of ‘The Woods in Winter’ by Stella Gibbons

05/12/2021 nsford 9 Comments

I’m afraid this is one for the Stella Gibbons completists only. This was the last to be published in her…

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Review of ‘The Matchmaker’ by Stella Gibbons

05/07/2021 nsford 2 Comments

First published in 1949, the most fascinating thing about this novel is the depiction of life in Britain just after…

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Review of ‘My American’ by Stella Gibbons

20/02/2021 nsford 6 Comments

This is a strange book because it can’t decide what it wants to be. Romance? Parody? Social critique? Autobiographical novel?…

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What happened when I used a random generator to choose my re-reads

21/07/2020 nsford 13 Comments

Some time ago, I explained how I choose which book on my shelf to read next. I was only using…

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Posted in: Reading Filed under: books, Christopher Pike, fiction, Harper Lee, J K Rowling, Jerry Spinelli, John Wyndham, Mary Shelley, Mervyn Peake, reading, Stella Gibbons

Review of ‘The Bachelor’ by Stella Gibbons

25/04/2020 nsford 4 Comments

First published in 1944, this charming and unusual novel brought a little romance to the British reading public during the…

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The ugliest book covers I own

13/04/2020 nsford 15 Comments

Most of the books on my shelf have attractive covers, or at least covers which don’t offend my eye. Although…

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Posted in: Reading Filed under: Anthony Horowitz, books, children's fiction, Christine Nostlinger, fiction, Jerry Spinelli, Stella Gibbons, Virginia Woolf, YA fiction

10 writers I’d love to have coffee with – time travel edition!

05/03/2020 nsford 29 Comments

My previous post on writers I’d love to have coffee with was very popular. My blogger friend Ryan stole my…

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Posted in: Reading Filed under: books, Charlotte Brontë, classics, fiction, George Orwell, H G Wells, H P Lovecraft, Harper Lee, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Stella Gibbons, Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, writers

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