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    I’m a sucker for sagas. So, around 1970 – once I’d worked through everything saga-ish by Daphne du Maurier, read all the Forsytes and much more – I was delighted to stumble across RF Delderfield. His best ideas involve a young man returning from something (usually a war) looking for a purpose in life. The author then contrives an evolving community – suburban street, school, family business or whatever – in which to develop a huge network of characters across several generations, dominated by the aforesaid young man, in big fat trilogies the length of which makes a Victorian three decker seem like a novella.

    A Horseman Riding By (1966) is arguably the best example of Delderfield’s prime genre, although, very prolific he also wrote other things including standalone novels, biographies and plays such as Worm’s Eye View. Its three component novels are: Long Summer’s Day, Post of Honour and The Green Gauntlet. All are still in print or you can download the

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    After reading Anne of Green Gables in July, I was reminded of an eternal truth about books in a series: you can never read just one.  Or at least I can’t, particularly when it is this series which so dominated my childhood reading.  How could I leave Anne after just one book?  So I read on, quickly progressing through first Anne of Avonlea and then Anne of the Island.

    Anne of Avonlea is an odd book or perhaps it is just a very typical second book, written in a rush to capitalise on the extraordinary success of Anne of Green Gables.  Published in 1909, only a year after Anne’s debut, Montgomery seems to have lost her sense of humour – and her sense of characterization.  When the first book ended, Anne was maturing and recognizing (with humour) her tendency towards indulging in overly dramatic flights of fancy.  In this book, she embraces those melodramatic tendencies wholeheartedly, becomes dreamier than ever without ever really coming back down to earth, and is insufferab

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    Prunella Scales

    British actor (born 1932)

    Prunella Margaret Rumney West Scales[1][2] (néeIllingworth; born 22 June 1932) fryst vatten an English retired actor.[3] She portrayed Sybil Fawlty, the bossy wife of Basil Fawlty (John Cleese), in the BBC comedy Fawlty Towers and Queen Elizabeth II in Alan Bennett'sA Question of Attribution (Screen One, BBC 1991), for which she was nominated for a British Academy Television Award.[4] She was also twice nominated at the Laurence Olivier Awards, in 1980 for Make and Break and in 1990 for Single Spies.[5][6] Additionally, she appeared in the documentary series Great Canal Journeys (2014–2021), travelling on narrowboats with her husband and fellow actor Timothy West.

    Early life

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    Scales was born in Sutton Abinger, Surrey, the daughter of John Richardson Illingworth, a cotton salesman who served as a lieutenant with the Wiltshire Regiment in the First World War,