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Preloved Special – Homes and Books
As regular readers of this blog know, I love a preloved bargain. Whether that be from Vinted, from a Charity shop, from a car boot sale, or from an antiques or vintage shop, I just love finding something a little different to the general High Street or online. Today I am looking at some of the preloved beauties I have seen recently. I am focusing on homewares and books, with, as you might have guessed, a focus once again on Agatha Christie books, something I am frequently trying to source. Many of the things featured are items that I have actually bought, whilst others are things I regret not buying.…
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Reviewed: The Royal Family Versus The Crown
If you are a fan of the Netflix series ‘The Crown‘ then there is no doubt that, at some point you will have said, ‘I wonder if that really happened?’ If that is the case, then acclaimed historical writer Catherine Curzon has written the book for you. ‘The Royal Family Versus The Crown‘, which hit the bookshops on Thursday, is a brilliant, almost encyclopedic tome which looks at every single episode of The Crown from the 6 series, and ask the questions ‘Did this really happen?’, ‘Did it happen in exactly the way that it is portrayed?’, and ‘Did it even happen at the time that is stated.’ The answers…
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Charity Shop And Thrifted Finds January. Pt 2
Welcome to part two of my Charity shop and thrifted finds post for January. This one is dedicated to book finds and shoes and accessories. (Check out Part 1 here.) I have to be honest and say I can’t pass a charity shop that has a book section, and if the shop happens to be one dedicated to books (Oxfam and St Giles Hospice have dedicated bookshops) then that is even better. I am currently building up my collection of Agatha Christie books by trying to find all the different editions, and both charity shops, and Vinted have been invaluable as I continue my search. One of the reasons for…
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A Christie For Christmas 2024
Once upon a time, well, in the 20th century at least, there was the festive tradition of ‘A Christie For Christmas‘.Each year, starting in the 1950’s. Agatha Christie wrote a new book that would be published in time for the Christmas market, and so the tradition of ‘ A Christie For Christmas’ began. It’s a tradition that I still follow, always having a new edition of a Christie classic to add to my collection, even though I have already read all the stories many times over. If you are about to start your own collection, or if you want to gift ‘ A Christie for Christmas’ this year, a good…
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Stylish Television: Moonflower Murders
The eagerly awaited sequel to last year’s hit Magpie Murders is now showing on BBC1 on Saturday nights. Moonflower Murders again pits literary editor Susan Ryland into the world of fictional detective Atticus Pund in order to solve a murder and disappearance in real life. Susan, who had a very love/hate relationship with Pund’s creator, the author Adrian Conway, once again has to navigate the clues left in the book to try to find the missing hotelier Cecily, who, after reading the Pund book, Atticus Pünd Takes the Case, believes that there may have been a miscarriage of justice in a murder that took place in her family hotel, and…
