Articles from Emily Tellwright’s blog that have reviews of particular books.
I hope it will surprise no one reading this to learn that I am not old enough to have direct memories of World War II. I am however, old enough to have grown up among people who not only lived through ‘The War’ as it was universally called, but were constantly remembering it. People whose lives had been permanently shaped by it, sometimes dramatically. In my youth I was sick of hearing about the whole thing.
April’s blog post is finally here with some new artwork of Fred Astaire, just in time! It’s been an eventful month that has flown by packed with stress, achievement and family commitments. The stress was mostly due to the new Castle Sefton Press online store, which proved to be more difficult to set up than I had realised due to some limitations of WooCommerce that I hadn’t been aware of. Overcoming these certainly felt like a great achievement for almost twenty-four hours, until I realised that the store had a technical issue that I couldn’t fix and had to draft in expert assistance.… Read the whole post “Fred Astaire and Singer Sargent: Inspiration and Entertainment”
Regular readers of this blog will know that I am an admirer of the work of English author J. B. Priestley, now best known for his play An Inspector Calls. My enthusiasm for his writing was, as far as I remember, first ignited by the 1981 BBC adaptation of that very play. Those of us who live in the UK had the chance to see this for the first time in many years on BBC4 this week.… Read the whole post “An Inspector Calls, Integrity and Imaginary Cooking Friends”