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Angela Hicken
Madelaine - the book thief
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Rachel the editor- Jane the Archivist
Cordelia Gray- Friday Next
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Future Princes of Winchester Find!
I think I have always been aware that The Prince in Waiting trilogy by John Christopher (Samuel Youd) was set in and around a future Winchester, but as I am not a great Science Fiction fan I hadn't ever given the books a reading. This morning I picked up our copy from the pile of books in the hall (those that haven't found a space on bookshelves as there simply isn't room to squeeze another in) I started reading having forgotten that in fact the books are set in a future, thinking instead that they had a medieval setting... which indeed they have... it is however a medieval setting in the future.The Trilogy's three titles are The Prince in Waiting, Beyond the Burning Land and The Sword of the Spirits. I am only about half way through the first book at the moment and although I had intended only to read this first book to give me a flavour for Reading Detectives I strongly suspect that I won't be able to leave it after just one installment.
Although Chrisopher now lives in Rye in Kent, he did live for some time in Winchester having moved to the city in 1932 and attended Peter Symonds Grammar School - the predecessor of today's Sixth Form College. More information abour John Christopher, his life and work can be found at http://www.gnelson.demon.co.uk/tripage/jc.html
Interestingly our copy of the book, a 1980 Puffin reprint of the three books in one, is stamped on the inside back cover with a large 'PENGUIN BOOKS PULP COPY' stamp. How did this book escape its fate? How did it come into our possession? What story does it have to tell?
30 August 2009 from Madelaine - the book thief
Finds
- 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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- Chalet School author
- Poetry in the pub
- Wealth of words in Winchester
- Hampshire Gets Going
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