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Cover of The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett, the first book in the Lymond Chronicles
Letter from Walter Gropius to Martin Wagner from 1934 describing Gropius' first impressions of England. To Gropius, as to modern visitors, the British aversion to efficient heating and good food is incomprehensible but he finds "the humaneness here is so attractive."
Paperback copies of three novels by Diane Pearson: Csardas, Voices of Summer, and The Summer of the Barshinskeys
Cover of The Rose Field by Philip Pullman
Cover of "The Private Capital" by Sandra Gwyn
Floral displays in barn for judging at fall fair
Quote from Tempest Tost by Robertson Davies
Cover of The Clarinet Polka by Keith Maillard
A quote from the comic novel, A Voyage of Consolation by Sara Jeannette Duncan: ‘I never see a foreigner in his native land,’ said Mr Mafferton, regarding this one with disapproval, ‘without thinking what a pity it is that any portion of the earth, so desirable for instance as this is, should belong to him.’ Which led me to suggest that when he entered political life in his native land Mr Mafferton should aim at the Cabinet, he was obvious so well qualified to sustain British traditions.
Cover of The Disorderly Knights by Dorothy Dunnett, the third book in her Lymond Chronicles series
Collage of book covers for: Carry On, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse; Emil and the Detectives by Erich Kaestner; A London Child of the 1870s by Molly Hughes; Yankee Stranger by Elswyth Thane; Ever After by Elswyth Thane; My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George; The Long Honeymoon by Mary Scott; The Smoke and the Fire by Essie Summers; and, Revolt - and Virginia by Essie Summers
A quote from the memoir Clinging to the Wreckage by John Mortimer, which reads: ‘You want to be a writer?’ my father said, after I had told him that I had sold my first short story to the Harrovian for ten bob. ‘My dear boy, have some sort of consideration for your unfortunate wife. You’ll be sitting around the house all day wearing a dressing-gown, brewing tea and stumped for words. You’ll be far better off in the law. That’s the great thing about the law, it gets you out of the house.’