11 posts published by This Reading Life during May 2025| This Reading Life
Friday, 7 November. Concarneau is empty. The lighted clock in the Old Town glows above the ramparts; it is five minutes to eleven. The tide is in, and the south-westerly gale is slamming the boats …| This Reading Life
No one noticed what was happening. No one suspected that something serious was taking place in the small station’s waiting room, where only six passengers sat dejectedly among odours of coffee, bee…| This Reading Life
The widow, Tati, keeps the stranger, Jean, on to help around the farm; and to have him in her bed though his attention wanders often to the 16 year old Felicie.| The Australian Legend