ome small items for the shortest day of the year which happens to be National Short Story Day, too. I don't know where this abbreviated celebration of the medium stands in relation to National Short Story Week which I referred to last month, but I am still enjoying Salley Vickers' new collection Aphrodite's Hat
- begun to mark that occasion - and I've dipped into it again today, reading the six-page, Keatsian-themed The Fall of a Sparrow.
Michelle Lovric was a most welcome guest here recently, and in her post for us she touched on her new book The Mourning Emporium
. In a lovely article in the latest edition of The London Library Magazine, Michelle talks about the books she used in her research for the novel - some curiosities among them (the Victorian Harrods catalogue one sounds fascinating).
Now, click here for something seasonal! That was, of course, a snippet of J.R.R. Tolkien's Letters from Father Christmas
but in a new ebook form with all the original letters written by 'Father Christmas' to Tolkien's children, and narration by Sir Derek Jacobi. Did you know that Father Christmas is aided by his secretary, an elf by the name of Ilbereth, and by his right-hand ursine, North Polar Bear, "the chief cause of the disasters that led to muddles and deficiencies in the Christmas stockings". Magical!
('S' by Jessica Hische at Daily Drop Cap).
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