Tag: Gone to Ground

• No Place to Lay One’s Head by Françoise Frenkel (1945), trans. Stephanie Smee

  I came across Bookish Beck’s review of No Place to Lay One’s Head last month and knew I just had to read it. It is the memoir of Françoise Frenkel, a Jewish woman from Poland who opened the first French-language bookshop in Berlin, in 1921. She had studied in France, and when on a visit […]

  Lizzi

  March 17, 2019

  Non-Fiction, Reviews

  2018, A Woman in Berlin, Francoise Frenkel, Gone to Ground, Memoir, No Place to Lay One’s Head, Non Fiction, Paperback, Pushkin Press, World War II

• Looking back on the books of 2016

  This is another overdue blog post, but one that I’ve really been looking forward to writing. I read 31 books in 2016, of varying quality, but overall it was a good reading year. I tried to branch out, accepting a total of eight review copies from publishers – which is a lot for me these […]

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  January 20, 2017

  Articles, Fiction, Non-Fiction, Reviews

  2016, 2017, A Woman in Berlin, best books of the year, Best Of, Blogging, Gone to Ground, History, If This is a Woman, Jonathan Littell, Maggie O’Farrell, Marie Jalowicz Simon, Penguin Modern Classics, Reviews, Sarah Helm, Sarah Schmidt, Shamim Sarif, Shirley Jackson, Short Stories, Susan Fletcher, The Kindly Ones, The Lottery and Other Stories, Tinder Press

• Tales of Survival: A Woman in Berlin and Gone to Ground

  I decided to write about both these books in one post for several reasons. They share obvious themes for one, and they complement each other in that one is written by a free German woman, an ‘ordinary citizen’, and the other is written by a Jewish German woman who spent the war in hiding. They […]

  Lizzi

  July 15, 2016

  Non-Fiction, Reviews

  A Woman in Berlin, Anonymous author, Berlin, Clerkenwell Press, Gone to Ground, Marie Jalowicz Simon, Non Fiction, Serpent’s Tail, Translated, Virago, World War II

• Upcoming reads and reviews

  I’m focusing purely on reading at the moment, and I know it’ll be a week or so until my next review – so in the meantime I thought I’d share a ‘preview’ of what’s coming up, both in my reading and here on the blog. I am about to finish reading the third book in […]

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  July 12, 2016

  Articles, Fiction, Non-Fiction

  2016, A Woman in Berlin, Brie Larson, Emer O’Toole, Fiction, Girls Will Be Girls, Glass Castle movie, Gone to Ground, In the Labyrinth of Drakes, Jeannette Walls, Marie Brennan, Marie Jalowicz Simon, Memoirs of Lady Trent, Non Fiction, The Glass Castle, The Voyage of the Basilisk, World War II