If you're looking for a Christmas present for an elderly female relative, this would be just the ticket.
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Back in the Good Old Days, When the Children were Thrashed and the Women Bashed …
I came home last night on a London bus, walked a kilometre from the stop, and wasn't murdered or mugged!
Read More »Friday Femmes Fatales No 27 (Women Bloggers)
Where are the female bloggers? Here, in my weekly "top ten" posts. And nominate for the new Carnival of Feminists.
Read More »Touching on touch: the serial sense
No wonder the robot-makers have so many problems with their inventions carrying a glass of water.
Read More »Book Review: The Franchise Affair, by Josephine Tey
The politics of this novel are impossible nasty: the explanation for the girl's dishonest behaviour is "bad blood".
Read More »A Lady of Quality Tells a Ghost Story
The figure stalked once round the table, and then disappeared through the closet door, pulling it after him.
Read More »Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient Persia – an Exhibition at the British Museum
Over three centuries, accounts come from little Greek states, mere gnats on the flank of the giant bull of empire.
Read More »Friday Femmes Fatales No 26 (Women bloggers)
Where are all the female bloggers? Here, in my weekly "top ten" posts.
Read More »Restore the Empress of Crime: Dorothy L Sayers
She has a richness of texture, a complexity of character and exploration of still-current themes that Christie can't match.
Read More »Who Would You Choose to Lead a ‘World Government’?
The BBC held a vote in which 15,000 people from around the world participated.
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