Churchill and America by Martin Gilbert Winston Churchill loved the United States unashamedly. ‘This is a very great country my dear Jack,’ he wrote to his brother. He took pride in his American blood – his mother was born in Brooklyn – and his US connections helped him make his fortune. During the 1920s and [...]

L I T E R A R Y H I S T O R Y Weaving a Conversation
Jacqueline Kent

Marilla North (ed.) Yarn Spinners: A Story ‘THIS IS A BOOK about friendship and storytelling,’ writes Marilla North in her prologue large and small events in the lives of Dymphna Cusack, Florence James and [...]

Rereading this after so long – it was first published in Voices magazine in 1996/7 – I can’t help feeling that it has a slightly olde worlde feel about it, mainly because the position of books, and book editors, has changed so much in the intervening period. But I still feel that [...]