Today's Wyrd Britain birthday honours go out to Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923), author of the wonderful 'Three Miles Up', and to comics artist Brian Bolland (1951), 'Judge Dredd', 'Batman: The Killing Joke', 'The Actress & The Bishop'.
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I claimed that this was no challenge at all, so I'll back that up:
30 day books-by-women challenge! 30 books, one per day, no particular order, that you’ve read that were written by women. #30DaysBooksByWomen #elizabethjanehoward #modernism
Day 11:The Long View - Elizabeth Jane Howard (read 2024)
[PARUTION - 09/10/2025 - 1ere éd. 1956 (anglais)] « C'était une gentille jeune fille, ignorante, inhibée, craintive et sans imagination, parfaitement apte à se reproduire ; en la considérant, Mr Fleming trouvait difficile de croire à [...] » www.lalibrairie.com/livres/la-lo...
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![[Image Description: a graphic featuring a photo of an elderly man sitting on the edge of bed and the words ‘Whoops-a-daisy,' he said, smiling again to show he was all right, and stuck one of his dreadful old feet with its Walt Disney ogre's toenails almost into her face as she knelt recovering his travelling clock, his pills, his spilled water-carafe, his spectacles, his address book that he kept up to date by crossing off his friends as they died, his saucer that he'd used for grape pips, a couple of chessmen he'd been mending and a plastic heart-shaped box in which he kept alternate rows of false teeth at night.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:diyyoff3hc4pakhill6zgn4l/bafkreih2sboazbpfql4xbwgbh3h65bpl6l57v6ecx5poknykfvfmyafqeq)
[Image Description: a graphic featuring a photo of an elderly man sitting on the edge of bed and the words ‘Whoops-a-daisy,' he said, smiling again to show he was all right, and stuck one of his dreadful old feet with its Walt Disney ogre's toenails almost into her face as she knelt recovering his travelling clock, his pills, his spilled water-carafe, his spectacles, his address book that he kept up to date by crossing off his friends as they died, his saucer that he'd used for grape pips, a couple of chessmen he'd been mending and a plastic heart-shaped box in which he kept alternate rows of false teeth at night.]
#SundaySentence from 'Child's Play' in the short story collection Mr Wrong by Elizabeth Jane Howard
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I’m reading a book that I bought for literally pennies in a 2nd-hand bookshop. Nobody wanted it because it was falling apart.
But reading #ElizabethJaneHoward #TheSeaChange, I feel I should’ve insisted on paying more because, as ever, her work is priceless & I, like the novel itself, am in pieces
Finishing off this great collection; I'm especially enjoying rereading the last story, "Mr. Wrong" #ElizabethJaneHoward #weirdfiction #horrorfiction
![[Image Description: an abstract artwork featuring a seated couple and the words He wanted to kiss her once more, before they left this place, after which he felt that everything he had always known might become unknown, and that everything he had found in her might recede or vanish into a myth of his life, but looking at her calm face whose expression was still - and indeed had never stopped being - mysterious to him, he did not dare.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:diyyoff3hc4pakhill6zgn4l/bafkreid2noxkflgnlbcccviy7ol6boyipxlrupc7ahrxtshifpxls5eupa)
[Image Description: an abstract artwork featuring a seated couple and the words He wanted to kiss her once more, before they left this place, after which he felt that everything he had always known might become unknown, and that everything he had found in her might recede or vanish into a myth of his life, but looking at her calm face whose expression was still - and indeed had never stopped being - mysterious to him, he did not dare.]
#SundaySentence from Odd Girl Out by Elizabeth Jane Howard
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A book review of Elizabeth Jane Howard's novel, FALLING.
I can always rely on EJH to pull me out of a reading slump. My new blog post on FALLING - a dark, unsettling, incredibly immersive tale of deception, loneliness, control, and the erosion of trust. Loved it!
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A copy of FALLING by Elizabeth Jane Howard basking in the sun, although the book's characters aren't!
"Why did insomnia always seem to ally itself to pain and fear and grief? Why could she not lie in the dark revelling in joyful or at least pleasant bits of the past?"
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Many thanks to @andrewmale.bsky.social for this brilliant recommendation. #ElizabethJaneHoward 💙📚
The latest Il giornale dei libri! paper.li/tigella/libri Thanks to @LeFonti_Group @LaLipperini #halloween #elizabethjanehoward
The latest Il giornale dei libri! paper.li/tigella/libri Thanks to @LibriamoTutti @Einaudieditore @Bookliners #allombradijulius #elizabethjanehoward
