Not so new addiction XV

Nov 1, 2021 By Alison Leslie Gold in Personal No Comments

Chanel’s Riviera by Anne De Courcy

Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling

Pianos and Flowers (short stories) by Alexander McCall Smith

Istanbul, Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk

Trains and Lovers (interlocking stories) by Alexander McCall Smith

The Black Monk and other stories (short stories) by Anton Chekhov

Real Estate by Deborah Levy

The Complete stories of Anton Chekhov Vol 1 – 1882-1885 by Anton Chekhov

A Sportsman’s Notebook (stories) by Ivan Turgenev

Bel Ami by Guy de Maupassant

Sleep No More (short stories) by P.D. James

First Love by Ivan Turgenev

After the Fireworks (three novellas) by Aldous Huxley

About Love (stories) by Anton Chekhov

The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy

Poor Clare by Elizabeth Gaskell

Lives of the artists by Kathleen Krull

Lives of the Writers by Kathleen Krull

Lives of Extraordinary Women by Kathleen Krull

The Danube by Nick Thorpe

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Not so new addiction XV

Chanel’s Riviera by Anne De Courcy Plain Tales from the Hills by Rudyard Kipling Pianos and Flowers (short stories) by Alexander McCall Smith Istanbul, Memories and the City by Orhan Pamuk Trains and Lovers (interlocking stories) by Alexander McCall Smith The Black Monk and other stories (short stories) by Anton Chekhov Real Estate by Deborah(…)
Not so new addiction XIV

Sybille Bedford: A Life by Selina Hastings A Visit to Don Otavio: A Mexican Journey by Sybille Bedford Fifty-two Stories (short stories) by Anton Chekhov Other People’s Love Affairs (short stories) by D. Wystan Owen Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov by Maxim Gorky, Alexander Kuprin, I.A. Bunin Reading Chekhov by Janet Malcolm Ernest Hemingway: The Short(…)
Not so new addiction XIII

The Graybar Hotel (short stories) by Curtis Dawkins Crossing Mandelbaum Gate by Kai Bird Flights (fragments) by Olga Tokarczuk Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy The Diamond Dog (poems) by Diane Wakowski Bowie’s Bookshelf: a Hundred Books that Changed David Bowie’s Life by John O’Connell Realms of Gold: The Letters and Poems of John Keats(…)
Not so new addiction XII

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Not so new addiction XI

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Tale of two emails: First email

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