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Apparently it’s #SherlockHolmesDay ! I’ve just started this, my first Conan Doyle. Because a poster told me to.
Ageing butler and stick-in-the-mud Stevens takes a trip to visit Miss Kenton, previous housekeeper of Darlington Hall, while reminiscing and ruminating on his vocation and past. A wistful, understated yet powerful read Kazuo Ishiguro #TheRemainsOfTheDay
Inspiring and informative stuff at Durning Library SE11 with writer/teacher Julie Garton, delightfully assisted by voice artist Joan Walker, talking about memoir writing as part of Lambeth Readers and Writers Festival #LamLitFest24
A chance meeting in a dining room sets Frenchman Jacques and Englishman Thomas, both ambitious medicine men, on a path of friendship and science as they study ‘lunacy’ from inside the asylum. An epic story of humanity, full of heart Sebastian Faulks #HumanTraces