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June 2025

The Good Stuff #20
Summer like a Bennet sister, eye-popping diaries, a damning book review, how to behave when summering in the Hamptons, garden baths and Persephone…
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Natasha Poliszczuk
24
Summer Nostalgia
A rose-tinted compendium - including 8 of the most summery books ever written. The end.
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Natasha Poliszczuk
49
My month of Jane
A cottage of her own, excused from the rhubarb, and the satisfaction of the spinster
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Natasha Poliszczuk
3
Ann Patchett loves this book
So do I. (And so will you.) Virginia Evans on using a cupboard as a study, making incisions in time, and writing a letter to the Queen
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Natasha Poliszczuk
29
The Good Stuff #19
What makes a meaningful life? Plus: crushes, coastal style (on a budget), publishing demystified, detective fiction, the most glorious garden,
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Natasha Poliszczuk
27

May 2025

The summer of the saga
All killer, no filler, no -ahem -aga.
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Natasha Poliszczuk
3
Harriet Evans on being a 'nerdy English girl', house obsession, literary snobbery, and her new novel, The Treasures
We both have a lot of chat.
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Natasha Poliszczuk
21
What should my bookclub read next?
This book. This is what you should read.
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Natasha Poliszczuk
5
This Year's Love (Story)
Jessica Stanley being brilliant on writing, falling for men in books and her tremendous novel, Consider Yourself Kissed which I promise has everything…
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Natasha Poliszczuk
16
The Good Stuff #18
Wisteria, Cecil Beaton, Jane Gardam, paperbacks, Carl Larssen, and wallpaper debates
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Natasha Poliszczuk
25
Books I put off reading
For all manner of reasons
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Natasha Poliszczuk
5
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