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New substack newsletter, rounding up recent blogposts: ranging from noir film & podcast (h/t Sergio Angelini) to Ralph Lauren adverts, childhood reading, and what schoolgirls wore for PE clothesinbook.substack.com/p/a-tip-of-m...
My new substack newsletter, topics and posts on grammar, fictional holidays, Little House on the Prairie, the word 'fancy', and what St Trinian's girls wore for PE clothesinbook.substack.com/p/the-best-f...
Didn't you once post this picture @iammilliam.bsky.social ? I can't think where else I would've got it from?
I've got a new substack newsletter out - Lady Chatterley and other morality tales... the status of gamekeepers... and the early 20C gap year clothesinbook.substack.com/p/20th-centu...
My new newsletter on Substack - left luggage, The Weeping Bride and her Baggage, and how Neville Shute created a character who reminds everyone of their Dad clothesinbook.substack.com/p/what-conne...
My latest substack newsletter is out, rounding up recent themes and posts on the Clothes in Books blog clothesinbook.substack.com/p/time-trave...
I particularly like theatrical mysteries, and have now found a very nice picture to use as a logo to link together my blog posts. Welcome to - Stage Door Enquiries!
This is my new Substack newsletter - a deep dive into the Count of Monte Cristo (and the concept of revenge) and also Barbara Trapido, Ross Macdonald and the best book titles clothesinbook.substack.com/p/revenge-gr...
We are looking at best book titles on the blog, and there is a question for @lissakevans.bsky.social in the comments - why did the film of Their Finest Hour and a Half have the shortened name Their Finest? And did you mind? clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2026/05/best...
My new substack newsletter is out - fictional families to fall in love with, and how to investigate in a nudist colony clothesinbook.substack.com/.../come-for....
New edition of my Substack newsletter today, with updates and links on the week's posts. Books on families... clothesinbook.substack.com/p/investigat...
The nice people at Substack create an image for me when I have a new newsletter. This time it is the glory that is Paul Newman getting upset about the lack of coffee. (If he reads my newsletter he will cheer up)
I'm serving up substack newsletters now.... a weekly roundup of the posts on my blog, and they made me a nice image to share.... clothesinbook.substack.com/p/literary-j...
A new newsletter out on my substack open.substack.com/pub/clothesi...
Glastonbury for fans of Golden Age crime fiction! Bodies From The Library's annual conference was as splendid as ever. Jake Kerridge and I did a presentation on GA reference books, and so I have included our list as part of the blogpost.... clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2025/06/gold...
I wrote aobut Pride & Prejudice for the i newspaper, but saved for my blogpost clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2025/04/cult... my most important conclusion about book/screen versions:
They knew how to enjoy themselves in 1955. (from Andrew Barrow's Gossip book). Harold Macmillan bowled out by Mr Pastry. @robpalk.bsky.social Who can we put up against David Lammy?
...Only people of a certain age will appreciate (or even understand) my description of the 1970s Persuasion that 'looks like the cast of Howard’s Way in Regency clothes, shot in a Berni Inn.'
Any alternate history people here? TIL that George V nearly died in 1928, 'desperately ill', Prince of Wales summoned home, crowds at BuckPal. PoW had not met Mrs Simpson yet - how would things have been different if he'd succeeded to the throne then? A man in possession is a very different thing...
So what did Harriet D Vane's wedding dress look like? IYKYK. I did a blogpost with some possibles.... clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...
Every year I would post this quote on Twitter around now in January. It was usually my most popular post of the year - will Bluesky match that? It's the incomparable Bridget Jones, nailing it on life post Xmas