A quick post today as I’m preparing for a week long business trip. In true bibliophile style the only thing ready is my destination-compatible reading list! I’m heading for ….
CityLit London
With the aid of that and the other truly amazing resource below …..
Lived In London (Blue Plaques and the Stories Behind Them)
I have planned a few evening walkabouts – weather and gammy ankle permitting! I think I will have to be content with blue plaque hunting as I have become quite frustrated with the number of literary attractions that close at 5:00 p.m – the Dickens House Museum and the Folio Society Reading Room, to name but two! (Don’t the powers that be understand that business tourists can only tour in the evenings?)
Fortunately the Persephone bookshop is open until 6:00 pm, so cue one mad dash across London to get there before the doors close. Hopefully it will be dry that evening so that I can have a good old wander around Bloomsbury. Apparently my literary girlfriends both have publishing friends there ….
Misses Pettigrew and Hargreaves
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Effi Briest - Theodor Fontane (Readalong 
The Beauty Room - Regi Claire
My Mother's Lover - Urs Widmer
The Help - Kathryn Stockett
The Rule of Four - Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason
Noir - Robert Coover
The Taint of Midas - Anne Zouroudi
Housekeeping - Marilynne Robinson
The Duel - Anton Chekhov
The Duel - Heinrich von Kleist
Gillespie and I - Jane Harris
State of Wonder - Ann Patchett
Titus Groan - Mervyn Peake
CIty of Dreadful Night - Peter Guttridge
Shadow Sister - Simone van der Vlugt
A Far Cry From Kensington - Muriel Spark
The Assault - Harry Mulisch
Next World Novella - Matthias Politycki
The Water Theatre - Lindsay Clark
Water For Elephants - Sara Gruen
The Liberation of Celia Kahn - J David Simons
Nocturnes - Kazuo Ishiguro
Hotel Du Lac - Anita Brookner
I hope you make it to the Persephone bookshop; I am sure you shall.
I have the seen the blue plaques book here and there and I must peruse it properly at some point.
Claire – I hope I make it there as well … although other people in this household are hoping differently …. for obvious reasons!
Hurray for Miss Hargreaves!
Yes Simon, she’s a bit of a handful, isn’t she? You won’t believe what she got up to in the capital …. journal entry pending ….
Looking forward to it!
Are you in London now? If so how about a coffee and I can give you the The Man in the Picture? Just a thought, will email you!
What a shame – I was in London last week.
Lizzy, how many books did you buy in London?
Colette
Come back later and I shall reveal all ……