Dorothy L Sayers Society: dedicated to the works of Dorothy L Sayers, writer, translator, poet and lay theologian, creator of Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane
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26 Oct 2017
Lovely piece by @Emily_Michelson on academics and detectives, our late patron P. D. James and a real tribute to Gaudy Night @SomervilleOx x.com/gmperriam/status/92355…
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Today's episode of the podcast has a distinctly transatlantic feel as Catriona McPherson joins us from California and @MalcolmKempt dials in from Newfoundland! Listen here: bloodyscotland.podbean.com/
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May 14
Just a reminder that you can still vote for the @HarrogateFest Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year shortlist. All the longlisted books are great but I’d be very grateful if anyone wanted to vote for The Frozen People 😊
harrogatetheakstoncrimeaward…
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It's time to reveal Denise Mina's first special guest who will be joining us in September, and they don't come any more special than the absolute legend that is @LeeChildReacher Get your tickets here before they're all gone: bloodyscotland.com/event/den…
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We have some incredible new books in a dyslexic-friendly format at #WoolwichLibrary! Check out some popular fiction from across the world, including mythology, thrillers, romance and more! 📚 @GreenwichLibs @Royal_Greenwich @Better_UK #LoveYourLibrary
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May 12
Look out for Rose Tremain's stunning new novel The Housekeeper, about the "real" Mrs Danvers with whom DDM had an affair. You'll never read Rebecca the same way afrter.
May 12
Finished Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier - this morning, read by the sublime #HollidayGrainger.
She's perfect at evoking British 1930s UMC accents, think Venetia Hall but slightly less jolly hockeysticks.
Though, and no shade to Holliday, I have no idea why she pronounces 'passage' as 'p-saj'.
I feel like starting it all over again, it's one of the very best English novels, my love for it definitely influenced by its parallels with another perfect novel, Jane Eyre.
Though I don't think I actually like any of the characters, apart from when the narrator - the second Mrs De Winter - describes her initial thought after her husband's 'shocking' revelation.
Read it!!
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May 14
The Society is looking for an historian of @UKHouseofLords , specifically, trials of peers in the HoL . Sayers readers will know which novel, published 100 years ago featured the trial of the Duke of Denver in the HoL. We have tried 1/2
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May 14
contacting the HoL library, as well as other avenues. So far zero response. If you know of anyone who can speak on this topic please contact us! Either DM here or email: vc@sayers.org.uk 🙏2/2 ends
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May 13
Looking forward to talking to P. Hill/Camden/Kentish Town readers @oPrimroseHillLibrary tonight. Here’s my 10th novel High & Low in @OwlBookshop window right now!
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#BOTW: George Bellairs's Death in Dark Glasses (1952) follows Inspector Thomas Littlejohn of Scotland Yard as he investigates the murder of a recluse who the murderer thought would not be missed...
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Out today: Villainous Saltpetre, bringing Galileo’s list of Clifford Witting reissues to twelve!
We hope you enjoy this mystery, which is set in Cornwall & centres around the death of an unsuccessful playwright - who’d already staged his own disappearance 25 years earlier!
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A grande vantagem de dizer a verdade é que ninguém acredita nela...
Dorothy Sayers & muito mais nas dicas de livros & artes do TTTTT: blogdotataritaritata.blogspo…
#tataritaritata #livroterapia @DLSSoc
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Dorothy L Sayers was Churchwarden of @AnnesSoho where her ashes are also interred beneath @sohosocietyw1 HQ - the Clocktower @DLSSoc
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Another festive entry from an O Douglas book. The excellent contining character Lady Jackson has a new dress, in red and gold brocade clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/…
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3 Dec 2024
History is now and England.
Ralph Fiennes reads from Little Gidding - Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot
2 Dec 2024
We are born with the dead:
See, they return, and bring us with them…
A people without history
Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern
Of timeless moments. So, while the light fails
On a winter’s afternoon, in a secluded chapel
History is now and England.
T.S. Eliot
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11 Mar 2025
If you haven't yet read Gina Dalfonzo's Dorothy and Jack: You should! I just finished and *thoroughly* enjoyed it.
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15 Oct 2025
Agatha Christie brilliantly sets the post-war (1950) atmosphere by having a character read out classified ads in the local paper, and comment on them
(A Murder is Announced)
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15 Oct 2025
'I will cut adrift—I will sit on pavements and drink coffee—I will dream; I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim—this fine October" - Virginia Woolf
#WomensArt
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7 Oct 2025
🚴John Betjeman said that it was worth cycling 40 miles in a headwind to see them.
🪽The early C16th Angel Roof at St Wendreda in Cambs is adorned with over 100 oaken angels.
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14 Oct 2025
Since today is the anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, I can't resist sharing this again...
14 Oct 2016
Today just wouldn't be complete without this brilliant image: Winnie the Pooh meets the Battle of Hastings facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=…
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14 Oct 2025
Thank you @FaberBooks for this festive surprise! #TheChristmasClue by @nicolaupsonbook is out now, and it stars the real-life couple who invented Cluedo.
I adore Nicola's books, so I cannot wait to devour this little stand-alone tale! ❤
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