This lovely painting, dating from 1922, is by Felix Valloton: "La Liseuse" (the reader). I love her dressing gown, and as for the wall hanging -- wow. All in all a wonderful combination of colours and patterns and shapes.
Amazon
Georges Simenon: Maigret Goes to School: Inspector Maigret #44
McCarthy, Helen: Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood
- Robert Goddard: Painting the Darkness
- Margery Allingham: Flowers for the Judge
- Tana French: The Searcher
Mills, Sam: The Fragments of my Father: A Memoir of Madness, Love and Being a Carer
My Books
Harriet Devine: Looking Back: Playwrights at the Royal Court, 1956-2006
Harriet Devine Jump: Nineteenth Century Short Stories by Women: A Routledge Anthology
Harriet Devine Jump: Women's Writing of the Victorian Period 1837-1901: An Anthology
Harriet Devine Jump: Women's Writing of the Romantic Period, 1789-1836: An Anthology
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