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Showing posts with label Walker (Joan). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Walker (Joan). Show all posts
09 December 2024

The Ten Best Book Buys of 2024... and many gifts!

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What a year! On day two, while returning from a grocery run in nearby Brockville, I stopped at a thrift store and found first editions of Gi...
12 May 2024

Growing up with Mother

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Miranda Jan Hilliard [Hilda Kay Grant] New York: Abelard -Schuman, 1960 247 pages   Miranda is the mother of two daughters, the younger bein...
19 December 2022

The Ten Best Book Buys of 2022 (plus gifts!)

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This year will be forever remembered as the one in which Sexpo '69  was added to my collection. An elusive book, published in 1969 by Br...
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04 July 2022

A Forgotten Novelist's Hidden Debut

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Joan Suter was thirty-seven when her first novel, East of Temple Bar , was published. She'd begun her working life as a fashion illustra...
06 June 2022

Accidents Never Happen in a Perfect World

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Murder by Accident Leonie Mason [Joan Suter] London: C. & J. Temple, 1947 200 pages Guy Warren is a demobbed major. The war over, he see...
11 April 2022

Talking Joan Walker with Dick Bourgeois-Doyle

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This past weekend I had the pleasure of speaking with Dick Bourgeois-Doyle of Canus Humorous  about the life and work of Joan Walker (née Su...
21 March 2022

Joan Suter, Angus Hall, and the Collector in Me

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I've got several paying projects on the go, all with tight deadlines, meaning there won't be any reviews here for the next month or ...