“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” Many people will recognise this as the first line of Jane Austen’s 1813 novel, Pride and Prejudice and to modern eyes it sounds a very old-fashioned idea. Which is not surprising, it was written over twoContinue reading “REVEALED! WAS JANE AUSTEN WAS RIGHT ABOUT LOVE ALL ALONG?”
Author Archives: Yasmin Keyani
WRITE YOUR TRUTH!
Because no-one else can write it quite like you “I don’t want to find out if this is real consumption, perhaps it’s going to gallop—who knows?—and I shan’t have my work written. That’s what matters. How unbearable it would be to die—leave ‘scraps,’ ‘bits’ . . . nothing real finished.” When Katherine Mansfield wrote this, sheContinue reading “WRITE YOUR TRUTH!”
BRILLIANT BOOKS IN BARCELONA
The fantastic old typewriter above is from the Hibernian Books bookshop. Hibernian Books (https://www.hibernianbooks.com) is a new and second-hand English language bookshop in Barcelona that I visited just before Christmas last year when my partner and son. I always look for a bookshop when I go anywhere, and it was lovely to visit this one!Continue reading “BRILLIANT BOOKS IN BARCELONA”
HAY-ON-WYE: A BOOK LOVERS PARADISE!
When I visited Hay-on-Wye in August of this year, I had missed the festival, but I still got to see the many different bookshops in this eccentric little town. I love books and as a result one of my favourite shops is of course a bookshop! I was lucky and got to work in twoContinue reading “HAY-ON-WYE: A BOOK LOVERS PARADISE!”
EMBRACE THE STRANGE!
In fantastical tales, where normal expectations are upended, writers get a chance to offer strange and unsettling ideas and let the reader make their own interpretations. Sometimes it’s difficult to know who to have empathy for; the main protagonist, the titular character or someone else entirely? One example of this is in the Strange Case ofContinue reading “EMBRACE THE STRANGE!”
Catching The Last Train – Vanishing Ladies to the Third Reich
I like trains! There is always something exciting, romantic and mysterious about them (unless you’ve been moved onto a replacement bus service which isn’t usually that romantic). But assuming your trip goes well, there’s so much to see from where you sit. What’s out of the window and, of course, the other people in yourContinue reading “Catching The Last Train – Vanishing Ladies to the Third Reich”
The Queen of Crime’s Notebooks
Friends and family know I am addicted to both stationery and Agatha Christie novels. So imagine my excitement at discovering a book about Christie’s notebooks! Agatha Christie’s Secret Notebooks by John Curran (published by Harper Collins, 2010). This isn’t a recent book, it’s from 2010, but once I discovered it existed, I had to get it! TheContinue reading “The Queen of Crime’s Notebooks”
It’s a wonderful Christmas carol life!
As we approach Christmas, I’m thinking about my favourite Christmas stories and films. For me, these are A Christmas Carol and It’s a Wonderful Life. A Christmas Carol is a book by Charles Dickens. It was written in six weeks after Dickens had visited the Ragged School, an establishment for street children in London and he published the titleContinue reading “It’s a wonderful Christmas carol life!”
Write What You Know? Or What You Imagine?
Authors are often told to ‘write about what you know’. Despite that sounding easy, it isn’t. Writing about your own life can seem dull, prosaic and boring. And if it’s not like that, if your life is either really exciting, fulfilling and wonderful, or actually quite awful, you probably don’t have time or a wishContinue reading “Write What You Know? Or What You Imagine?”
Leave it to Wodehouse!
Like so many things you learn as a child, the writers you read as you grow up will affect you for life. I admit that’s just my opinion, I don’t have absolute scientific proof, but it’s definitely been true for me. Despite Wodehouse being born in 1881, and me in 1972, I still found hisContinue reading “Leave it to Wodehouse!”
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