A sensible sort of room
The boy slips out of a deadly dull afternoon tea in which two ladies are talking about clothing. He finds...
Beware educated peasants
Naive readers may imagine that an ideology ostensibly serving the masses might have been glad to encounter an educated peasant. ...
The library at Tyntesfield
Ever in quest of dream libraries, I was delighted to discover this National Trust article on their...
In quest of lost libraries
For me the world of books and libraries has a shadow world of those lost or destroyed. Surely someone could...
A writer’s retreat
We first noticed it when it was still a construction site, but even on a grimly dank and overcast day,...
How to hide a poem (I)
The child in me has always been curious about secret ways to communicate or protect things. When we drive, I...
Black-frogged livery
Of several unbelievable sojourns Leigh Fermor enjoyed in anciently aristocratic homes dotted across central Europe, this may top the lot. ...
Visit to the Leeds Library
By luck, a short visit to Leeds coincided with a monthly guided tour of the Leeds Library, one of...
Handwriting as clothing II
Stansted Park is an elegant house set in 1,700 acres of park and woodland in the south of England....
A visit to the Palladio Library
We visited the Palladio Museum in a suitable palazzo down a charming side street in Vicenza. Only by chance on...
Basilicata bibliomotocarro
Antonio La Cava, a retired school teacher, converted a quintessential Italian vehicle, the three-wheeler micro-van, into a travelling library.
For...
On the culling of books
I have long put off writing this post because I have an aversion to it. Â A while back I bought...
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