In my irregular themed look at old posts (previous posts here), this time I’ve picked novels where the author becomes part of the story – true metafiction – and I got AI to do me an illustration of a typewriter churning out a New York cityscape, which leads me to my first pick below… The New Read More
Category: Five Feat…
Six Feat… Kensington & Chelsea
In my irregular themed look at old posts (previous posts here), this time I’ve picked books where the action takes place in or just outside the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea and the postcodes of SW7 and W8, my old uni stomping ground. See the numbered map below.
Five Feat… 1952
The week after this one, from 21-27 April, it’s the next year reading club hosted by Kaggsy and Simon: The 1952 Club. As I was going through lists of possible books to read, it struck me there must be five I’ve already reviewed on this blog – so time for a new ‘Five Feat…’ post, Read More
Five Feat . . . Duos
In my irregular themed look at old posts (previous posts here), this time I’ve picked Duos as the link. Like the musical duos Simon & Garfunkel and Althea & Donna, all the titles in this list feature two names in the title. However, they aren’t all couples, there are friends and colleagues too in this Read More
Five Feat… Trains
The second in an occasional series that gives me an opportunity to recycle posts on a theme, (the first was geographical – Surrey). This time the five books I’ve chosen all feature a rail journey, three by French authors, two American. I had enough to pick from a couple of times over, so this one Read More
Five Feat… “Surrey”
This is the first of a new occasional series ‘Five Feat…’ (apologies to those who don’t like the slangy abbreviation of ‘featuring’, but it keeps it neat!). I’ve decided to start at my beginning and have found five books I’ve read that are set or partially set in or adjacent to my home county of Read More
