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Daphne du Maurier: The King's General
Deborah Lawrenson: The Secretary
Richard Cohen: How to Write like Tolstoy
Adrian Tinniswood: Noble Ambitions
Adrian Tinniswood: The Power and the Glory
Martin Williams: The King is Dead, Long Live the King
Gavin Plumley: A Home for all Seasons
Robert Harris: Precipice
Nigel Slater: A Thousand Feasts
Joan Aiken: Tales of London Town
Alan Connor: 188 Words for Rain
Ben Robinson: English Villages: An Extraordinary Journey through Time

2024

Rory Stewart: Politics on the Edge
Victoria Glendinning: A Suppressed Cry
Matt Gaw: In All Weathers
Annie Gray: Victory in the Kitchen: The Life of Churchill's Cook
Patrick Bringley: All the Beauty in the World
S.G. MacLean: Destroying Angel
Tiffany Francis-Baker: The Bridleway: How Horses Shaped the British Landscape
Nevil Shute: Pied Piper
Joan Bodger: How the Heather Looks: a joyous journey to the British sources of children's books
Abraham Verghese: Cutting For Stone
Marie Kondo: Spark Joy
Ben Macintyre: Operation Mincemeat
Henry Oliver: Second Act
Christopher Milne: The Path Through the Trees
Anne Lamott: Bird by Bird: Instructions on Writing and Life
Clare Chambers: Small Pleasures
Gill Hornby: Miss Austen
Julia Cameron: Living the Artist's Way: An Intuitive Path to Creativity
Susan Fletcher: The Night in Question
Patrick Grant: Less
Margery Allingham: The Oaken Heart
Margery Allingham: Death of a Ghost
Margery Allingham: Sweet Danger
Sue Black: All That Remains: A Life in Death
Beth Kempton: Wabi Sabi: Japanese Wisdom for a Perfectly Imperfect Life
Helen Rebanks: The Farmer's Wife
Karen Corsano & Daniel Williman: John Singer Sargent and His Muse: Painting Love and Loss
S.G. MacLean: The Black Friar
Erica E. Hirshler: Sargent’s Daughters: The Biography of a Painting
Lisa St Aubin de Terán: Better Broken Than New: A Fragmented Memoir
Donna M. Lucey: Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas
Hannah Rothschild: House of Trelawney
S.G. MacLean: The Seeker
Jane Cooper: The Lost Flock: Rare Wool, Wild Isles and One Woman’s Journey to Save Scotland’s Original Sheep
Bella Bathurst: The Lighthouse Stevensons

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Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre
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Library steps

From The Library of Trinity College Dublin, Harry Cory Wright; more on the book soon.

30 July 2018 in Bookshops and libraries, Non-fiction | Permalink

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Gosh, looking at these pictures brings back some memories of the various library steps I've climbed in the past, to retrieve items for readers, usually in a mini-skirt too. Though that may have been easier than climbing in a long Edwardian skirt!

Posted by: Janet | 30 July 2018 at 04:36 PM

Hoping to visit that library in January.

Posted by: Mary | 30 July 2018 at 07:22 PM

Awesome - in the true sense of the word! Gorgeous!

Posted by: Joan Kyler | 31 July 2018 at 01:21 PM

Indeed!

Posted by: Cornflower | 31 July 2018 at 03:30 PM

Wonderful, Mary, I hope you do.

Posted by: Cornflower | 31 July 2018 at 03:30 PM

Having been there myself I can tell you it is!

Posted by: Cornflower | 31 July 2018 at 03:32 PM

It makes me nostalgic for libraries I have known and aware that with the internet I rarely go to them now...

Posted by: Freda | 01 August 2018 at 05:07 PM

I've never been in the library but I am guessing the atmosphere must be incredible.

I will be interested to see what you make of The Poison Bed : I am about halfway through and although it is a bit different from Elizabeth Fremantle's other books so far ( which I loved), I am finding it intriguing with her customary sure hand on spirit of time and place.
Having just read Tracy Borman's first novel The King's Witch which is set in the same time frame, I wouldn't have liked to live during James I's reign one bit!

Posted by: LizF | 01 August 2018 at 09:05 PM

The internet, wonderful in so many ways as it is, doesn't give you the multi-sensory experience of a library.

Posted by: Cornflower | 02 August 2018 at 02:36 PM

I'm very much enjoying The Poison Bed, Liz, and you're right about Elizabeth Fremantle's sure hand.

Posted by: Cornflower | 02 August 2018 at 02:37 PM

They're beautiful and certainly put the orange 1970s step from Mothercare that I use to reach the higher shelves in my book room to shame!

Posted by: Juxtabook | 02 August 2018 at 02:40 PM

If it does the job ...!

Posted by: Cornflower | 02 August 2018 at 07:13 PM

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