Early one autumn afternoon in pursuit of an elusive book on her shelves, Susan Hill encountered dozens of others that she had never read, or forgotten she owned, or wanted to read for a second time. The discovery inspired her to embark on a year-long voyage through her books, forsaking new purchases in order to get to know her own collection again.
A book which is left on a shelf for a decade is a dead thing, but it is also a chrysalis, packed with the potential to burst into new life. Wandering through her house that day, Hill's eyes were opened to how much of that life was stored in her home, neglected for years. Howards End is on the Landing charts the journey of one of the nation's most accomplished authors as she revisits the conversations, libraries and bookshelves of the past that have informed a lifetime of reading and writing.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Copyright Page
- Starting Point
- No Order, No Order
- A Corner of St James’s
- Saturday Mornings and Wednesday Afternoons
- Next to the Pop-Up Books
- Great Expectations Behind the Sofa
- This is the Weather the Cuckoo Likes
- The Well-Travelled Bookcase
- Laughter in the Next Room
- Amis, Père et Fils
- Never Got Around to It, Don’t Like the Look of It, Couldn’t Get Beyond Page Ten and Other Poor Excuses
- A Little List
- Things that Fall out of Books
- It Ain’t Broke
- … Diaries
- ‘One Half of the World Cannot Understand the Pleasures of the Other.’
- ‘Life is a Handful of Short Stories Pretending to be a Novel.’
- The Man with the Charming Smile
- Children 3 Adults 0
- Decline and Rise?
- Forgotten
- Writing in Books
- Who’s Afraid?
- The Dregs?
- Not Met
- Sebald
- Collection, Compilation, Miscellany, Omnibus, Anthology
- A Book by its Cover
- Roots
- Slow, Slow, Slow-Slow, Slow
- Long Barn
- The Way we Live Now
- Picture Books
- Bad Bed-Fellows
- Sea Interludes
- Hardy
- Down among the Women
- Reading for the Soul
- A Thousand Books of the World
- Climbing to the Top
- The Final Forty
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