Thursday Kidnapping
Recently finished this and really enjoyed it (admittedly would swap it for a Marlow book). One thing that struck me is that it seems much more a picture of its times - perhaps because it is set in London, while Trennels and Kingscote always seem so much their own (rather timeless) universes. Here are a few things that struck me ( Read more... )

 Check out this piece on AF by novelist Emma Darwin at http://vulpeslibris.wordpress.com/  

Here is Chapter Two of my Antonia Forest fanfic.  Obviously all characters based on her Marlow stories, no infirngement of copyright  intended.

Chapter Two

Nicola sat hugging her knees on the battered chaise-longue in the Trennels sitting-room, and stared unseeingly at Tessa and Daks, who were curled up together near the open hearth.  ( Read more... )

  Chapter One

The country life, Tim reckoned, was definitely over-rated. All those Lakeland poets her aunty loved so much had a lot to answer for. When Lawrie was flush with the receipts of her first Hollywood blockbuster, and purchased herself a nice country retreat - with a good wine cellar and attentive butler (Tim grinned, enjoying herself now ( Read more... )

So good to find this site, full of other people who share a passions for the Marlows    Fascinating that people have such very different responses. Never occurred to me that you could love the books but not Nicola, or that anyone actually liked Patrick Merrick….

So I’d like to ask opinions about something I find puzzling. All the obits/biogs say ( Read more... )