Tag: Daphne du Maurier

• Five books that changed the way I read

  Some books you read, and then you just sort of forget; they don’t make any difference in your life. Some you think about for a while after, but then they fade from your memory and you move on to the next thing. But there are some books that just get their hooks into you and […]

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  January 17, 2022

  Articles, Comment, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Personal, Reviews

  20th Century, Alone in Berlin, Biography, Daphne du Maurier, Daphne DuMaurier, Donna Tartt, Fiction, GoodReads, Hans Fallada, Hardback, History, Jane Austen, Jenny Williams, Julius, Literature, Little Man What Now, Lord of the Flies, More Lives Than One, My Cousin Rachel, Non Fiction, Paperback, Penguin, Penguin English Library, Persuasion, Rebecca, Sarah Waters, Second World War, The Goldfinch, The Paying Guests, The Secret History, William Golding

• My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier (1951)

  I first read this in 2014, which seems like a lifetime ago, and decided to re-read it earlier this year when I was fed up with everything I had on my bookshelves. At some point I put it aside, and I left it for so long, I’m not sure why, that I literally forgot I […]

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  October 10, 2020

  Fiction, Reviews

  Book review, Daphne du Maurier, Daphne DuMaurier, Fiction, Historical fiction, Lady Audley’s Secret, Movies, My Cousin Rachel, Paperback, Re-reading, Virago

• Julius by Daphne du Maurier

  Having only read Rebecca, My Cousin Rachel, and some short stories, I was eager to branch out into the less obvious novels of Daphne du Maurier. For years I have found her and her work fascinating, and always tell other people they should read her – and yet Julius is only the third novel of […]

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  February 8, 2015

  Fiction, Reviews

  20th Century, Daphne du Maurier, Fiction, Rebecca, Virago, Virago Modern Classics