Below is the current text of the page at this blog about the film The Eagle, which came out just about a year ago. I am wondering if any readers here have suggestions about how I might improve it now?Read More »
… it’s sad how many of our favourite haunts look like a Flanders shellhole now … (Diary, 7/5/88)
May 7th Saturday. Warm wind and hazy sunshine. Sultry haze on the downs. Joan & I & the dogs & Muriel out for a long afternoon to see what if anything was left of Bedham (?) Woods. Pretty awful – especially sad the sight of so many uprooted trees putting out leaf and blossom where they lie, for the last time. The bluebells were lovely, and the Ramsay Ray’s garden had largely escaped – even to the peacocks, and blossom, and was looking lovely. But it’s sad how many of our favourite haunts look like a Flanders shellhole now.
© Anthony Lawton 2012
… saw a few swifts on the vicarage … (Diary, 6/5/88)
May 6th Friday. Dentist this morning. Saw a few swifts on the vicarage
… just what I and the dining room both want … (Diary, 5/5/88)
May 5th Thursday. Into Chichester for a spot of shopping, my first in months, nylons, a scarf etc. Found myself (it will have to come out of Norah Balchin’s legacy) a pair of amethyst chop earrings which are being put onto screws for me. Found stuff for the dining room curtains, Warmer’s (?) “Palace Binds”, hideously expensive but just what I and the dining room both want.
© Anthony Lawton 2012
In most historical novels plot is secondary to theme and subject | Rosemary Sutcliff Discovery of the Day
It has probably been long forgotten, indeed unknown to most people, including current staff at her publishers Hodder and Stoughton, that around 1970 they published The Hodder and Stoughton Library of Great Historical Novels, chosen by Rosemary Sutcliff. One was Scent of Cloves by Norah Lofts (first published in 1958). At the end of her introduction, Rosemary Sutcliff wrote:
This is a very difficult book to write about. Read More »
ROSEMARY SUTCLIFF (1920-92) 