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Writer for readers of all ages. Voracious reader. Watcher of far too much tv and partial to a box set. Knitter. Pbk of #DangerousWomen appeared in 2022

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adele geras@adelegeras·
@SamaHoole Sailing home from West Africa on the Elder Dempster line ships, we had “beef tea” served at 11.00 or so. Probably that was Bovril. Delicious!
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Sama Hoole@SamaHoole·
A jar of Bovril sat on the kitchen shelf of every British household between approximately 1900 and 1995. It was beef extract. Concentrated cattle, in a small brown jar, the colour of treacle, the consistency of marmite, but with a savoury depth that came from the actual stock pot of an actual abattoir in Burton-upon-Trent. A teaspoon of Bovril stirred into a mug of hot water was a hot drink on a cold afternoon. A teaspoon stirred into the gravy gave a Sunday dinner an extra dimension. A teaspoon spread on toast was a snack a small boy ate after school while his father did the football coupon. Bovril was carried in the kit bags of British soldiers in two world wars, advertised on every railway station for a century, and once endorsed by Pope Leo XIII, which is the only product in history to carry the line "Bovril, the two infallible powers, the Pope and Bovril." Unilever acquired it in 2000. Reformulated it in 2004 as a yeast extract for the vegetarian market. Reformulated it back to beef in 2006 after the resulting outcry. Now produced in a factory in Burton-upon-Trent in much smaller quantities. It is still on the shelf in most supermarkets. Most British children have never tasted it. The mug of Bovril at half-time at the football, the hot drink on the touchline at the rugby, the hot drink before a long walk in the Lakes, has been quietly replaced by a Costa flat white from a paper cup. The cup is empty in twenty minutes. The mug of Bovril used to last the second half.
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Kristina Bolten
Kristina Bolten@Kristinartz·
DOES ANYONE HERE HAVE SOMETHING IN THEIR HOUSE THAT'S OVER 40 YEARS OLD..
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Great to be quoted!
ACHUKA@achuka

The latest (#12) edition of The Gab — dedicated to Julia MacRae and authors associated with her — is a splendid one. One of the authors featured, @adelegeras, recalls the speed with which things used to happen in publishing: "In those days it was so much simpler; you wrote your book, sent it in, they either took it or they didn’t" – taking a matter of weeks to make a judgement, not the months or years writers have complained of subsequently – "and nine months later they’d send you a finished copy. I think I had only one meeting and there was only minimal editing. Often you’d mark up corrections on the galleys."

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Tom Holland@holland_tom·
The noble work is bright, but, being nobly bright, the work Should brighten the minds, allowing them to travel through the lights. To the true light, where Christ is the true door.
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Barendina Smedley
Barendina Smedley@fugitiveink·
I wonder whose idea it was to put these rather elegantly carved lines from Larkin on the wall at King’s Cross railway station? Well, I’m glad they did.
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Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Frank Cottrell-Boyce@frankcottrell_b·
Curiouser and curiouser ... Lots of lists of greatest novels flying round. Not one of them mentioning the most enduring, boldest and most quoted work of fiction. alice in wonderland.
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Will visit soon. Amazing…
Architecture Hub@archpng

St Wendreda’s Church in March, Cambridgeshire, hides one of England’s most extraordinary angel roofs. Above the nave is a rare double-hammerbeam timber roof, filled with around 120 carved oak angels—many with outstretched wings, watching from the beams like a suspended medieval procession. The church itself is mainly 14th and 16th century, while the famous angel roof is usually dated to the early 16th century. Poet John Betjeman famously said it was worth cycling 40 miles into a headwind just to see it.

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@jpodhoretz @TedIacobuzio Persuasion War and peace Middlemarch Bleak House Moby Dick À la recherche du temps perdu.(all volumes) Great Expectations The Great Gatsby Jane Eyre A dance to the music of time (all volumes) Hard to pick Austen/Dickens/Tolstoy. On another day I might have chosen others!
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John Podhoretz
John Podhoretz@jpodhoretz·
Here is my list of the top ten novels of all time: ANNA KARENINA. WAR AND PEACE. THE BROTHERS KARAMAZOV. MIDDLEMARCH. JANE EYRE. PRIDE AND PREJUDICE. THE LAST CHRONICLE OF BARSET. NOTRE DAME DE PARIS (The Hunchback of Notre Dame). TOM JONES. PERE GORIOT.
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James Wilson
James Wilson@alawyerwrites·
I'm not going to try to think of the top 100, but I will just say that the greatest novel about war ever written remains The Secret Battle, by AP Herbert (Monty agreed with me; WSC & Lloyd George also thought it genius). @nimishdubey @Cullivanpeter @militaryhistori @CraigNelsy
Capel Lofft@CapelLofft

I have conducted an infallible survey of international experts (*me) and these are the greatest novels of all time. I don't want to hear any whining from fricassee-fancying Frenchie fops or tax-dodging Yankee parvenus: you can disagree, of course, but you're objectively wrong.

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@CapelLofft Agree very much with many of your choices! Not only Austen and Dickens but also Powell!
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Capel Lofft@CapelLofft·
I have conducted an infallible survey of international experts (*me) and these are the greatest novels of all time. I don't want to hear any whining from fricassee-fancying Frenchie fops or tax-dodging Yankee parvenus: you can disagree, of course, but you're objectively wrong.
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