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About meCambridge University MA. Now pretty well retired, most recently a Management consultant specialising in small businesses, previously (variously) school teacher, Advertising Agency MD, Bookshop/Library supply company owner even lawyer(briefly!).

About my libraryCollected, stolen, bought, inherited. Covers all my interests and a goodish few areas I might be interested in one day. I rarely sell a book (I give the odd one away) and rarely pass a second-hand bookshop without going in and then buying. I keep trying to break the habit, but it is too ingrained.

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Brazilian Adventure by Peter Fleming

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The Inferno Story by Andrew Morgan

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The Loved One. An Anglo-American tragedy ... Illustrated by Stuart Boyle. L.P by Evelyn Waugh

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East and west : the last governor of Hong Kong on power, freedom and the future by Christopher Patten

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Maud Gonne : lucky eyes and a high heart by Nancy Cardozo

Thank you for your kind comments on my MP review! I'm thrilled that it's given even a little insight to someone. MP isn't quite as "fun" as Austen's other books, but I love what she does with the complex family relationships. The day they went to Sotherton and got all frustrated, coming and going and missing one another while the intrigues bubbled under the surface... wow! It felt so realistic. I've observed and even unwillingly participated in such drama myself. People haven't changed since Austen was writing!

Thanks again for the note. Take care :-)

~ww

posted by wisewoman at 11:18 am (EST) on Apr 17, 2009

Sure, so it is the right guy then?

posted by bluetyson at 2:10 pm (EST) on Jun 30, 2008

Hi,

The Fleming is actually a short story in Alfred Hitchcock's Bar the Doors.

The Kill by Peter Fleming (a werewolf story)
By arrangement with Jonathan Cape Limited. Copyright, 1942, by Charles
Scribner's Sons.

posted by bluetyson at 8:51 am (EST) on Jun 25, 2008

"Most near, most dear, most loved and most far.
Under the window where i often found her
Sitting as huge as Asia, seismic with laughter,
gin and chicken helpless in her Irish hand..."

How kind of you to alert me to this one, esp. since it is recent and not even on Amazon's dot com site!
Did you note the recent death of John Heath Stubbs?

Stay well & all best,
hs

posted by helmutbooks at 9:11 pm (EST) on Jan 30, 2007

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