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A Place after my Heart
Winifred Nicholson's travels with poet Kathleen Raine and a North Norfolk escape
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A Portrait of a Marriage
Mary Fedden, her life with Julian Trevelyan and her late flourishing
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Attuned to beauty
The life and work of the artist Jean Cooke, the pleasure of pen and ink and grebe watching
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Constable, Curlews and the first Cuckoo
Take a Tube trip with me to South Kensington, walk the byways of Suffolk and then linger in the Peaks
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The smallest things are gifts
Pass time slowly in the delightful company of the painter Mary Newcomb (1922-2008)
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A Garden in Winter
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The Quiet Moon
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Winifred Nicholson and the Coming of Spring
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Attuned to beauty
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An Artist's Garden
Bloomsbury garden paintings and ripping up and starting again
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Return to the Garden
Seed sowing, a return to Evelyn Dunbar and a gardening love affair
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Winifred Nicholson and the Coming of Spring
Colour, carving out time and more comfort reads
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All in black and white
The work of six pioneering women wood engravers and looking again at Jane Austen
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An awfully big adventure
The colourful life of Kathleen Hale, the creator of Orlando the Marmalade Cat
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The Lyricism of Winter Trees
The drawings and paintings of Elisabeth Vellacott (1905-2002), a tale of persistence and revisiting Wuthering Heights
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The Quiet Moon
The art of Mary Potter (1900 - 1981), the menace of Moon Eyes and now we are six-ty
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A Box of Delights
How children's books remind us of what we have forgotten, the "pleasing terror" of the Christmas ghost story and my books of the year
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A Garden in Winter
A painting by Evelyn Dunbar and wintry, comfort reading
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Still Sketching
Still Sketching
The adventures of an artist and printmaker walking and drawing in the Norfolk countryside
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