She's speaking here in Vancouver in early December and I'm so excited to hear her!

Superb timing! I was fast but not fast enough - 4th in the queue.

I'm so looking forward to this!

Gordon Korman is great, especially his Macdonald Hall books.

We specialize in messy used bookstores here! Happy to report that not all smell of rodent pee

There are lots of connections! Thirkell co-opted Trollope's Barsetshire and peopled it with her own characters but also descendants of Trollope's families. It's fun to spot all the familiar names and tributes to Trollope. The Angela Thirkell Society has notes on each novel for the linkages

I think Virago is still publishing but at a much slower rate (Jutland Cottage was released this year). No idea when they'll stop. The later books simply aren't that good so, fun as it would be to have a complete set, I can't blame them for losing enthusiasm www.virago.co.uk/titles/angel...

I remember when the first green spined Thirkells arrived and my gasp of disappointment. How I resented putting them on the shelf next to the earlier Virago editions with the image wrap on the spine! I'm still frustrated each time I look at them all lined up