Anita Roy

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  A Year in Kingcombe – July
  10 August 2018

  The hottest, driest June on record had simply extended unbroken into July, and apart from one brief downpour, which barely managed to soak the topsoil, looked set to unroll till the end of summer.… [more]

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  A Year in Kingcombe – June
  10 August 2018

  It was a typical English summer’s day, in that it felt like early November and I was regretting not bringing my gloves. The wind clawed through the sycamore and chestnuts, yanking their leaves back at the wrist and setting their silver undersides streaming, while above them, the hilltops vanished into the low-bellied clouds.… [more]

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  A Year in Kingcombe – May
  10 August 2018

  I walked along the lane leading up to the Wessex Ridgeway, the way I’d come in January. The trees had lost the sharp distinction of winter, and even the crisp pointillism of early spring had given way to a kind of blurring – a soft wash of green...… [more]

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  On the Shelf #51 – Book fairies
  18 July 2018

  Across the world, book fairies are quietly leaving gift-wrapped books in little crannies with a simple instruction: Share the joy… [more]

• On the Shelf #50 – Ali Smith
  18 June 2018

  We need books, like Ali Smith’s How to be Both, to remind us to stop talking into our hands, to remove little blocks from our ears, and look up from screens … [more]