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1LesMiserables
Just finished my second helping of Slightly Foxed. As the Sword of Honour trilogy was deliciously examined in the last edition of Slightly Foxed, I could not but help get excited by the latest trilogy exposed in No.37 in the form of Macdonald Fraser's Complete McAuslan. One for the basket.
2Conte_Mosca
I have had to stop reading my copy. by the end of the day it arrived I had already ordered Portrait Of A Turkish Family, The Real Mrs Miniver and The Bass Saxophone. And I had only got as far as the first three articles!
3jveezer
I just subscribed...the Folio Society partner offer of a free slipcase and a tax refund enough to push me over the edge. Based on all I've heard over the years, I can't wait to see the first issue.
4bkmcneil
Argh, mine has not yet arrived! Maybe it just takes that much longer to wing its way from England to Colorado . . .
5abbottthomas
The reviews in SF #37 are:
Mercator: The Man who Mapped the Planet by Nicholas Crane
The Ginger Man by J P Donleavy
The General Danced at Dawn, McAuslan in the Rough and The Sheikh and the Dustbin by George MacDonald Fraser
The Real Mrs Miniver by Ysenda Maxtone Graham
Five Sugars, Please, The Sound of Paint Drying, Uncut Confetti and Peace, Love & Potatoes by John Hegley
Near to the Wild Heart, The Apple in the Dark, The Passion According to G. H., The Stream of Life and The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
Ultramarine, Lunar Caustic and Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
Why This World by Benjamin Moser
Portrait of a Turkish Family by Irfan Orga
A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz
The Island of the Colour Blind by Oliver Sacks
The Cowards, The Bass Saxophone and The Swell Season by Josef Skvorecky
Cities of the Renaissance World by Michael Swift and Angus Konstam
The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World
The Letters of Horace Walpole
The Short Stories of H G Wells
The Novels of Percy F Westerman
Also articles on Charity Bookshops and The Folio Society
There are no misses or ultbs in this selection - Hegley's Peace, Love and Potatoes is nearest with only 4 copies in LT. Clarice Lispector's The Apple in the Dark is listed in SF as Apples in the Dark, which doesn't show on LT - SF error perhaps?
The big surprise for me was the dearth of Percy F Westerman books on LT. 140-odd of his many books are listed but almost all have only one or two copies. As a 70 year old Brit I was very familiar with the author in my early days as were many of my contemporaries. I wouldn't have hung on to them and certainly never thought of re-reading them - at least until I had read SF #37 ;-)
Mercator: The Man who Mapped the Planet by Nicholas Crane
The Ginger Man by J P Donleavy
The General Danced at Dawn, McAuslan in the Rough and The Sheikh and the Dustbin by George MacDonald Fraser
The Real Mrs Miniver by Ysenda Maxtone Graham
Five Sugars, Please, The Sound of Paint Drying, Uncut Confetti and Peace, Love & Potatoes by John Hegley
Near to the Wild Heart, The Apple in the Dark, The Passion According to G. H., The Stream of Life and The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector
Ultramarine, Lunar Caustic and Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry
Why This World by Benjamin Moser
Portrait of a Turkish Family by Irfan Orga
A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz
The Island of the Colour Blind by Oliver Sacks
The Cowards, The Bass Saxophone and The Swell Season by Josef Skvorecky
Cities of the Renaissance World by Michael Swift and Angus Konstam
The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World
The Letters of Horace Walpole
The Short Stories of H G Wells
The Novels of Percy F Westerman
Also articles on Charity Bookshops and The Folio Society
There are no misses or ultbs in this selection - Hegley's Peace, Love and Potatoes is nearest with only 4 copies in LT. Clarice Lispector's The Apple in the Dark is listed in SF as Apples in the Dark, which doesn't show on LT - SF error perhaps?
The big surprise for me was the dearth of Percy F Westerman books on LT. 140-odd of his many books are listed but almost all have only one or two copies. As a 70 year old Brit I was very familiar with the author in my early days as were many of my contemporaries. I wouldn't have hung on to them and certainly never thought of re-reading them - at least until I had read SF #37 ;-)
6LesMiserables
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I'm in Australia and I got mine weeks ago! Might be worth an email.
I'm in Australia and I got mine weeks ago! Might be worth an email.
7LesMiserables
Well just finished The General Danced at Dawn by George MacDonald Fraser. Initially I expected something akin to Waugh's humour, but nothing so dark. Funny in places and a generally decent little read.
8LesMiserables
For the record, I have completed the reading of the whole trilogy since pouring over the review in No.37. The Sheikh and the Dustbin by George MacDonald Fraser. It was the last of the three and a fine finish it was to the other two preceding novels.
