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This is a year of reading from home, by one of Britain's most distinguished authors. Early one autumn afternoon in pursuit of an elusive book on her shelves, Susan Hill encountered dozens of others that she had never read, or forgotten she owned, or wanted to read for a second time. The... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
First Sentence edit
It began like this. I went to the shelves on the landing to look for a book I knew was there. It was not.
Table of Contents edit
Starting Point
No order, no order
A corner of St James's
Saturday mornings and Wednesday afternoons
Next to the pop-up books
Great Expectations behind the sofa
This is the weather the cuckoo likes
The well-travelled bookcase
Laughter in the next room
Amis, pere et fils
Never god around to it, don't like the look of it, couldn't get beyond page ten and other poor excuses
A little list
Things that fall out of books
It ain't broke
...Diaries
"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
"Life is a handful of short stories pretending to be a novel."
The man with the charming smile
Children 3 Adults 0
Decline and rise?
Forgotten
Writing in books
Who's afraid?
The dregs?
Not met
Sebald
Collection, compilation, miscellany, omnibus, anthology
A book by its cover
Roots
Slow, slow, slow-slow, slow
Long barn
The way we live now
Picture books
Bad bed-fellows
Sea interludes
Hardy
Down among the women
Reading for the soul
A thousand books of the world
Climbing to the top
The final forty
Authors & Contributors edit
- Susan Hill (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Profile Books LTD
Country: Great Britain
Publication Date: 2009
ISBN: 9781846682650
Page Count: 236
Publisher: Profile Books LTD
Country: Great Britain
Publication Date: 2009
ISBN: 9781846682650
Page Count: 236
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 823.914
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