Happy weekend everyone! And it’s a VERY happy weekend for me, because – so long as I’m not pinged after I schedule this blog post – I’ll be spending my Saturday in Hay-on-Wye! While the number of bookshops there decreases every time I go, it’s still my favourite place – and I’m looking forward to sharing pictures of my spoils with you on my return.
The spoils I will leave you with, in the meantime, are the usual book, blog post, and link…
1.) The blog post – LouLouReads has reviewed one of my favourite frothy, silly novels – a total delight from cover to cover, and luckily she liked it too. Check out her thoughts on Patricia Brent, Spinster by Herbert Jenkins.
2.) The link – interesting article on working-class author Ethel Carnie Holdsworth – I’ve only read Miss Nobody, but will be interested to see what comes of this potential revival of her work.
3.) The book – Jane Austen & Shelley in the Garden by Janet Todd sounds like a fascinating novel – Austen is so vivid in Fran’s life that she feels like she knows her. ‘An encounter with a long-standing friend, and a new one, a writer, lead to something new. The three women unite in their love of books and in a quest for the idealist poet Shelley at two pivotal moments: in Wales and Venice.’ Find out more at Todd’s website – I enjoyed her book on Fanny Wollstonecraft back in about 2008, and the premise here is intriguing.
Have fun in Hay! Look forward to plenty of book haul pictures!!! ;D
I’m very envious of your book shop expedition and look forward to your sharing the spoils! Thanks for the Patricia Brent reference, as I love my silly novels now and then.
I’m looking forward to seeing the spoils of your visit too! I love a good book haul.
I didn’t know Janet Todd also wrote novels? I have some of her Jane Austen lit crit books. She’s great. I’m not really a fan-fiction reader, but this sounds a “little” intriguing.
Yes, I don’t know if this is the first – I’ve only read her non-fic before.