read whitstaple mum in custard shortage and other world exclusives from Britain's finest local newspapers an attempt to be funny with headlines like cat stuck on roof, two dogs collide on pavement -dog hurts nose, church window nearly smashed snow on roof for third day an update however the news papers were local to the authors area rarely going up north and the Argus (brighton and Hove ) hogged these headlines (14articles in total) a slim volume it was padded out by having both the newspaper headline and article in full from clipping and on the facing page a duplicated word for word transcript of the article content
understanding italian renaissance art another thames and hudson book with some fine painting based around themes ie colour, devotion. atmosphere and fashion
romantic moderns english writers artists and the imagination from virginia woolf to john piper by Alexandra Harris a study of inter war writers with some famous now others famous then showing their development form rural isolation and village inspired lyrics to writing sponsored rural travel guides and painting for advertising commissions
London by peter ackroyd
a concise classic of a book with incredible detail on london as lived from saxon times to late victorian along the themes of sewers, parish poor and parish watch hanged, haunted and fogged over excellent guide to London as it was all gone now wonderful to read about
read well and some poetry notes but had number of work meetings and despite great success in past lack of future funding in my area of expertise there is an irony there somewhere
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