This handsome new edition of *A Touch of Mistletoe* is most welcome. My discovery of Barbara Comyns I owe to Virago many decades ago. Recommended: *The Trials of Mary Johnsdaughter* by Christine De Luca (Luath Press) set in the Shetlands in 1773. One of the strangest and most convincing historical novels since *The Mauricewood Devils* by Dorothy Alexander (Freight Books 2016). The latter dealt with a Scottish mining disaster in 1889 and employed different typefaces and experimental narrative. Brilliant.
@@emilyrhodeswriter Your readers may enjoy *A Bite of the Apple - A Life with Books, Writers & Virago* by Lennie Goodings (Guardian online interview). Ms Goodings wept when Picador outbid Virago for the MS of *Room* by Emma Donoghue, reissued 2022. Rereading *Troy Chimneys* Margaret Kennedy and Henrietta Garnett's bio of Anne Thackeray Ritchie, a gallery of Victoriana. 2022. *In the Midst of Civilized Europe - The 1918 Pogroms in Ukraine & the onset of the Holocaust* by Jeffrey Veidlinger. *Reading Claudius - A Dual Memoir* Caroline Heller, which moves from contemporary Chicago to pre-War Mittel Europa. *533 - A Book of Days* Cees Nooteboom which says much in 2018 pages. *The White Birch - A Russian Reflection* by Tom Jeffreys. *Turning Point - A Year That Changed Dickens and the World* Robert Douglas Fairhurst. *Self Portrait* Cecilia Paul, a lavishly illustrated little paperback recommended by Zadie Smith. *Solid Ivory* James Ivory - the film-maker on Vanessa Redgrave, Satyajit Ray, Ismail Merchant, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala etc. *No Boys Play Here* Sallly Bayley's account of Shakespeare, her family & missing men. *Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk - Selected Stories of Nikolai Leskov* wonderful stories reissued by New York Review Books. Fiction of a high order... *Outrageous Horizon* Adrian Bosc. *Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch* Rivka Galchen. *Untold Day and Night* Bae Suah. *Don't Look At Me Like That* Diana Athill. *Your Cold Hand in Mine* Robert Aickman. *The Last Good Man* Thomas McMullan. *Pity the Beast* Robin McLean. *The Painter's Friend* Howard Cunnell. *Strange Beasts of China* Yan Ge. *A Net For Small Fishes* Lucy Jago. *The Falling Thread* Adam O'Riordan. *The Octopus Man* Jasper Gibson. *When We Cease To Understand the World* Benjamin Labatut* *The Tenth Muse* C Chung. *I'm Waiting For You* Kim Bo-Young. *Jens Peter Jacobson* Niels Lyhne & *Kallocain* Karin Boye - both Penguin Classics. *Marilou is Everywhere* Sarah Elain Smith. *Men and Apparitions* Lynne Tillman. *My Brother* Karin Smirnoff. I have forgotten Marina Warner's exquisite autobiography & science books like *The Universe Speaks in Numbers* G Farmelo.
This handsome new edition of *A Touch of Mistletoe* is most welcome.
My discovery of Barbara Comyns I owe to Virago many decades ago.
Recommended: *The Trials of Mary Johnsdaughter* by Christine De Luca (Luath Press) set in the Shetlands in 1773.
One of the strangest and most convincing historical novels since *The Mauricewood Devils* by Dorothy Alexander (Freight Books 2016).
The latter dealt with a Scottish mining disaster in 1889 and employed different typefaces and experimental narrative. Brilliant.
Thanks John. It is a handsome edition for sure! Great to hear a little about your recommended books too - thank you so much for sharing.
@@emilyrhodeswriter
Your readers may enjoy *A Bite of the Apple - A Life with Books, Writers & Virago* by Lennie Goodings (Guardian online interview).
Ms Goodings wept when Picador outbid Virago for the MS of *Room* by Emma Donoghue, reissued 2022.
Rereading *Troy Chimneys* Margaret Kennedy and Henrietta Garnett's bio of Anne Thackeray Ritchie, a gallery of Victoriana.
2022. *In the Midst of Civilized Europe - The 1918 Pogroms in Ukraine & the onset of the Holocaust* by Jeffrey Veidlinger.
*Reading Claudius - A Dual Memoir* Caroline Heller, which moves from contemporary Chicago to pre-War Mittel Europa.
*533 - A Book of Days* Cees Nooteboom which says much in 2018 pages.
*The White Birch - A Russian Reflection* by Tom Jeffreys.
*Turning Point - A Year That Changed Dickens and the World* Robert Douglas Fairhurst.
*Self Portrait* Cecilia Paul, a lavishly illustrated little paperback recommended by Zadie Smith.
*Solid Ivory* James Ivory - the film-maker on Vanessa Redgrave, Satyajit Ray, Ismail Merchant, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala etc.
*No Boys Play Here* Sallly Bayley's account of Shakespeare, her family & missing men.
*Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk - Selected Stories of Nikolai Leskov* wonderful stories reissued by New York Review Books.
Fiction of a high order... *Outrageous Horizon* Adrian Bosc. *Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch* Rivka Galchen.
*Untold Day and Night* Bae Suah. *Don't Look At Me Like That* Diana Athill. *Your Cold Hand in Mine* Robert Aickman.
*The Last Good Man* Thomas McMullan. *Pity the Beast* Robin McLean. *The Painter's Friend* Howard Cunnell.
*Strange Beasts of China* Yan Ge. *A Net For Small Fishes* Lucy Jago. *The Falling Thread* Adam O'Riordan.
*The Octopus Man* Jasper Gibson. *When We Cease To Understand the World* Benjamin Labatut* *The Tenth Muse* C Chung.
*I'm Waiting For You* Kim Bo-Young. *Jens Peter Jacobson* Niels Lyhne & *Kallocain* Karin Boye - both Penguin Classics.
*Marilou is Everywhere* Sarah Elain Smith. *Men and Apparitions* Lynne Tillman. *My Brother* Karin Smirnoff.
I have forgotten Marina Warner's exquisite autobiography & science books like *The Universe Speaks in Numbers* G Farmelo.
Correction: Cees Nooteboom says so much in 218 pages !