Join me in my blog post today in celebrating the 90th anniversary of Penguin Books:

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Style on show @royalacademyarts.bsky.social Summer Exhibition

For sale in the Silver Locket shop, a lovely copy of harlequinade by Noel Streatfeild with gorgeous colour lithographs by Clarke Hutton:

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For sale in the Silver Locket shop; Conran Quant: swinging London, a Lifestyle Revolution.

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For sale in the Silver Locket shop today: Players album celebrating the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth complete with 50 cigarette cards illustrating the ceremonial dress of all those taking part:

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When you are having a quiet coffee in Spitalfields Market and the unexpected happens

One of our favourite new books @dauntbooks and one I couldn’t put down. The utterly engrossing story of the author’s Uncle Eric and his remarkable inner creative life. It made think of you @thegentleauthor.bsky.social and you @iammilliam.bsky.social.

Join me in my blog post today as I reflect on Beatrix Potter’s homage to Aesop’s tale of the Town Mouse and the Country Mouse:

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Join me in my blog post today in a retelling of the story of the Town Mouse and the Country Mouse illustrated by Agnes Miller Parker. Her illustrations from the 1930s are celebrated in a beautiful edition of Aesop’s Fables by Bodleian Library Publishing.

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In my blog post today I am drawn back into the past by Patience Gray’s beautiful memoir ‘Honey from a Weed, illustrated by Corina Sargood;

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Join me on my blog post today as I admire
‘Plats du Jour’ by Patience Gray and Primrose Boyd with its exquisite illustrations by David Gentleman.

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In my blog post today I can’t contain my joy on receiving my copy of ‘103 Not Out: David Gentleman’s Stamps by Brian Webb and Simon Lawrence at the Fleece Press. It transports me back to my childhood stamp collecting days. Click on the link below:

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Join me in my blog post today as I share the reminiscences of the suffragettes, photographed by Jane Bown for the Observer Magazine in 1965. The three women in these photographs all went to prison in the suffragette cause:

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Join me in my blog post today as I celebrate the Heals cat. I do hope that, despite changes at the store, which mean that the upper floors are closed, he still presides over Cecil Brewer’s marvellous staircase.

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Snowdrops from Columbia Road Market this morning

Franco Matticcchio Children’s Illustrator

Join me in my latest blog post as I remember the 101 Dalmatians and celebrate the combined genius of Dodie Smith and illustrators Janet and Anne Grahame-Johnstone:

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