The team
Ruth Harrison
Angela Hicken
Madelaine - the book thief
Penny- Rose Ratcliffe
Rachel the editor- Jane the Archivist
Cordelia Gray- Friday Next
- Jacky Percival
Other teams
Postscrpt to a previous find
12 January 2010 from Madelaine - the book thief | I visited a local printer this afternoon and noticed on the side a newly published book by Jean Crossley whose book A Daughter of Winchester I wrote about in a previous blog. I was quite surprised and asked if it... Read more or Comment
The uses of a detective
12 January 2010 from Madelaine - the book thief | I was standing in the library the other day when I met a friend. She was with her son and searching for some Hampshire poetry for the son to write about for his English homework. Straight away I was able... Read more or Comment
Reading Detectives film
6 January 2010 from Ruth Harrison | Watch the film of Hampshire Reading Detectives' finale event.... Read more or Comment
A Daughter of Winchester Find!
1 December 2009 from Madelaine - the book thief | A neighbour recently loaned me a book which she thought would interest me because of a local history project I am working on. Actually the book turned out to have nothing at all about my part of Winchester but it... Read more or Comment
And here is one we missed Find!
6 November 2009 from Madelaine - the book thief | Reading through book reviews on the net recently I discovered 120 1152x882 Normal 0 Timothy's Book: Notes of an English Country TortoiseThe reviewer obviously enjoyed this book which has obviously only been recently published as 'an elegant little hardback' 'This... Read more or Comment (1 comments)
And, finally, one for Hallowe'en Find!
31 October 2009 from Rachel the editor | Running a quick search for Hampshire ghosts and ghouls, I came across one of our most infamous murders -- that of "Sweet Fanny Adams" in Alton on August 24, 1867. This song commemorates the execution of her murderer later that... Read more or Comment
How did we miss this one? Find!
31 October 2009 from Rachel the editor | The Forest, by Edward Rutherfurd, is set -- as one might expect -- in the New Forest, one of Hampshire's most notable landscapes. This is a saga that starts in Norman times and continues on down through the centuries, following... Read more or Comment (1 comments)
John Wyndham's Hampshire connection Find!
31 October 2009 from Rachel the editor | Steep may be a small village but it has several rich literary connections. It counts among its residents not only Edward Thomas but also John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris (1903-1969) -- better known by his first two names, under... Read more or Comment
Reading the countryside Find!
31 October 2009 from Madelaine - the book thief | It seems strange to be highlighting for Reading Detectives some books with few words, but the cartoon books of Norman Thelwell grew so much out of the Hampshire Countryside that I feel they need to be included here. Although Thelwell... Read more or Comment
Virginia Smith remembered
30 October 2009 from Angela Hicken | Local writer Daniel Clay asked me whether I had been aware of Virginia Smith (aka Virginia Warbey) who was a Chandlers Ford based writer and a part-time librarian in Winchester. She had two novels published - 'The Ropemakers Daughter' and... Read more or Comment (1 comments)
Finds
- A Daughter of Winchester
- And here is one we missed
- And, finally, one for Hallowe'en
- How did we miss this one?
- John Wyndham's Hampshire connection
- Reading the countryside
- New Milton's new Milton
- Heywood Sumner in South Gorley
- PG Wodehouse in Emsworth
- Walking In My Sleep
- Nicola Slade's Victorian Mysteries
- England's Lost Eden
- June Tate
- Bullington
- Speed The Plough: A Country Song
- A Hampshire scarecrow: Worzel Gummidge
- Queens Arms
- Haslar Hospital Memories
- Magical writing for children
- Inspired by the Tichborne Claimant
- Gypsy Girl Trilogy
- Rev. Gilbert White (1720-1793) and The Natural History of Selborne
- Coffee with Date and Walnut Loaf
- The Play Room
- Kipling's dislikes
- Deadman's Plack
- Netley Abbey Ruins
- Portsea Sagas
- Lilian Harry's Family Connections
- Crossing the Bar
- John Betjeman and Bevis Hillier
- Growing up in Portsmouth
- More Edward Thomas
- Two blokes and a shed
- In the shadow of the Cathedral
- Hampshire Days
- Mr Hardy Writes a Poem
- "Steep" is apt
- Thackeray in Fareham
- Forgotten Favourite?
- Daniel Clay's 'Broken'
- Pell and Tess
- Edward Thomas and Froxfield
- Betjeman explores hidden corners of Hampshire
- Rebecca Smith
- Right of Access
- Hampshire songs, poems, and ditties
- In this house
- Words & Walks
- England, Their England
- An Ode to a Road
- The story of a house
- Crime Connections to the City
- John Keat's Ode to Autumn
- William Lisle Bowles, poet
- Future Princes of Winchester
- Spike Island by Philip Hoare
- The marriage of souls
- Rural Rides: William Cobbett
- Elinor Brent-Dyer remembered
- Dornford Yates' Hampshire connection
- The Marlows, their maker and stealing a corner of Dorset
- Saint Cross: England's Oldest Almshouse
- Winchester the whole day through
- HOW TO BE A BETTER PERSON
- Otterbourne's Enid Blyton? Charlotte M. Yonge (1823-1901)
- Odo's Hanging is missing
- The Warden
- Charles Kingsley's Letters
- Owslebury Bottom
- See it My Way
- Introduction to Melesina Trench
- Some Hampshire road signs read Jane Austen Country
- Flora Thompson: published poet
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