Review: Apricot Sky by Ruby Ferguson The 1952 club was hosted by bloggers Simon at Stuck in a Book and Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings as another in their series of “Year Clubs.” The idea is simple, read a book or books from the club’s yea…

"Who doesn’t love a good romance? A tall, quiet, kilted laird and a lady fresh home from the USA. Swoon, right?"
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Not sitting comfortably: #1952Club Stylised raven from the Sutton Hoo shield. The Birds and Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier, introduction by David Thomson. Virago Modern Classics, 2004 (1952). First published in the UK in 1952 as…

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A belated review of 'The Birds and Other Stories' by #DaphneDuMaurier for the #1952Club.
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A stack of books, top to bottome they are: The Birds & Other Stories by Daphne du Maurier, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Presuasion by Jane austen, Writing the Uncanny: Essays on Crafting Strange Fiction edited by Dan Coxon & Richard V. Hirst, and Troll by Johanna Sinisalo, translated from the Finnish by Herbert Lomas.

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Not pictured: 🎧 The Sandman by E. T. A. Hoffmann
Still got a little bit left of du Maurier's collection, but I think it's my best of the month, prompted to read by the #1952Club and by an essay from Writing the Uncanny.

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April reading – and edging into May (and hopefully Spring…) April seemed to fly by this year, and that may be something to do with the fact that the Easter holidays fell slap-bang in the middle! That break *did* give me a chance to get a lot of reading done…

April was a bumper reading month for me, thanks in part to the #1952Club - more thoughts on this here! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/04/30/a...

Bookwise 2025/4 ‘Decadent Youth’ (1899) by Ramon Casas. This month my post ‘Why do I read?’ stimulated some fascinating discussion, though luckily nobody saw it indulgent or even, as in the…

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Reading progress during April, with #1952Club, #ReadingTheTheatre, and #ReadingAusten2025.
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Rounding up the #1952Club – and some thoughts on where we go next! Whew! Well, what a week that was! I thought that 1952 was going to be a bumper year to read from, as there are so many choices, and it’s been wonderful to see so many people taking part. The …

Thanks to everyone who joined in with the #1952Club - it was a bumper week! Today on the Ramblings I consider what we might do next... kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/04/28/r...

My final book for the #1952Club is Period Piece by Gwen Raverat, a granddaughter of Chales Darwin perfectretort.blogspot.com/2025/04/peri...

A copy of the New Canadian library edition of The Equations of Love by Ethel Wilson, showing a streetcar on a striped purple background. A latte stands next to the book.

Snuck one more #1952club read in this week. Thanks to @stuckinabook.bsky.social for the prompt of these two novellas. Wilson writes "the poetry of experience" in the tiny resentments, sacrifices, fears, and the unspoken among her characters - some heroic, some mock - but all deeply moving.

4 books and a small blue vase with dry baby breath on a wooden table: le côte de de guermantes by proust, forbidden notebook by alba de céspedes, stay with me by hanne ørstavik and mrs dalloway: biography of a novel by mark hussey

This week in books 📚 (starting Forbidden Notebook today, cutting it fine for the #1952club ) #booksky

Forbidden Notebook If the popularity of Elena Ferrante led to the rediscovery of Natalia Ginzburg, which in turn has encouraged publishers to look to other Italian women writers of the 1940s onwards such as Alba De C…

My final review for the #1952Club is Alba de Cespedes' Forbidden Notebook, translated by Ann Goldstein:
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Pink cover of Pigs have Wings by PG Wodehouse, a man in a black suit surreptitiously pouring a liquid into the mouth of a large black pig.

Current read for #1952club, great excuse to pick up a PGW.
Hornswoggling highbinders, Fruity Biffen, a Mrs Bunbury, and this time, the pig shenanigans are the fear that the Empress will be spiked with Tubby Parsloe’s Slimmo.
“Think, Gally. Use the bean.”
Marvellous.

Aunt Clara by Noel Streatfeild – #1952Club My final book for the 1952 Club being hosted this week by Simon and Karen is one of Noel Streatfeild’s adult novels. I loved Streatfeild as a child but came to her books for adults just a few years…

My review of Aunt Clara by Noel Streatfeild for #1952Club

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“…they all sat there in another world…” #1952Club #PaulBowles #LetItComeDown My final read for the #1952Club is not a title I was particularly thinking of picking up for our Year Week, but somehow I ended up being drawn to it. I had, as usual, made a big list of possibiliti…

It’s the final day of the #1952club and today’s book is a dark and wonderful one from Paul Bowles - Let It Come Down - more here kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/04/27/t...

“The Riviera isn’t just a sunny place for shady people” (W. Somerset Maugham) This is my final contribution to Kaggsy and Simon’s1952 Club which has been running all week. So far I’ve read two golden age mysteries for the club and I’m finishing with one too: Death on the Riv…

Today on the blog, a final post for the #1952Club hosted by @stuckinabook.bsky.social & @kaggsy59.bsky.social “The Riviera isn't just a sunny place for shady people” (W. Somerset Maugham) madamebibilophilerecommends.co.uk/2025/04/27/t...

I read Nancy and Plum by Betty McDonald for the #1952Club perfectretort.blogspot.com/2025/04/nanc...

Maigret’s Revolver by Georges Simenon – the #1952Club Translated by Siân Reynolds My second read for the #1952Club reading week hosted by Kaggsy and Simon – is a Maigret – there’s nearly always a Maigret that can be fi…

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No 249 Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor #1952Club Back in the mists of time when I did my degree in English Literature, I completed a module on the Southern Gothic, which introduced me to William Faulkner, Carson McCullers and Flannery O’Connor. I…

I reviewed Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor for the #1952Club

Don’t Look Round by Violet Trefusis – #1952Club There was a time when I would indiscriminately buy almost any book connected to the Bloomsbury Group. To a certain extent, that’s a book-buying era I’m still living – but I don&#8…

Nancy Mitford apparently called this book 'Here Lies Violet Trefusis' - I read Trefusis's not-very-revealing but nonetheless interesting memoir for #1952Club.

A rare reading failure for the #1952Club… 😬😳 When I was casting about for possible titles to read during our #1952Club week, I did wonder about the Russians… This being Soviet times, I guessed there might be limited obvious options to c…

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The 1952 Club: Who Lie in Gaol / Joan Henry I know not whether Laws be right, Or whether Laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long. Oscar Wilde&#8…

My last contribution for the #1952Club is Joan Henry's prison memoir WHO LIE IN GAOL. Bonus Glynis Johns content. Thanks to @stuckinabook.bsky.social and @kaggsy59.bsky.social as ever for hosting. Such a range of books this time!

Fever of Love by Rosamond Harcourt-Smith – #1952Club I’m always willing to take a punt on a cheaply priced mid-century novel by a British woman, and that’s how Fever of Love by Rosamond Harcourt-Smith ended up in my hands on a trip to Hay…

Should we judge a book by its cover? And its title? My latest #1952Club review is Fever of Love by Rosamond Harcourt-Smith.

Snowflake by Paul Gallico #1952Club Decorations: David Knight A little treasure UNQUESTIONABLY a good many readers will be lifted to honest heights of emotion by Paul Gallico’s inspirational little story about an anxious and thoughtful snowflake. Born i…

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Tom Adams’ Fontana cover of Mrs. MCGinty’s dead by Agatha Christie, a gigantic fly hovering over a dining table in front of a fireplace.

“Alas,” murmured Poirot to his moustaches, “that one can only eat three times a day…”

Christie has great fun with Poirot, playfully pricking his pomposity, and Ariadne Oliver, with her apples and her not so subtle weariness of her own detective.

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A couple of #1952Club mysteries Almost any club year will have a host of vintage murder mysteries (and Neeru always comes up with some good candidates) – 1952 is no exception. I’m not sure when the Golden Age technica…

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The 1952 Club: The Financial Expert / R.K. Narayan My previous experience of the Indian writer R.K. Narayan was a mostly successful read of his comic novel Mr Sampath – The Printer of Malgudi some years ago. Narayan’s best-known works are set…

Today's #1952Club offering is a rare treat, R.K. Narayan's THE FINANCIAL EXPERT.

Maigret crosses the channel – for the #1952Club! :D Time for more vintage crime on the Ramblings for the #1952Club, and today it’s one of Simenon’s marvellous Maigret novels. There were two titles published featuring the great sleuth in …

Day 5 of the #1952Club dawns, and you find me following a great French detective over the channel!! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/04/25/m...

“Good authors don’t seem to do much good these days. Books have got so psychological.” (Laura Talbot, The Gentlewomen) This is a contribution to Kaggsy and Simon’s1952 Club, running all week. One of the many great things about the Club weeks is that they encourage me to raid the TBR and get to books which could hav…

Today on the blog, a Virago Modern Classic and new-to-me author for the #1952Club hosted by @kaggsy59.bsky.social & @stuckinabook.bsky.social madamebibilophilerecommends.co.uk/2025/04/25/g...