While trying to find a ‘free’ version of the ‘The Railway Children’ to show the grandchildren as they had visited the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway last week, where it was filmed, I came across the trailer. I was surprised to see it featured the PAN edition of the book in a strange kaleidoscopic swirl which I’ve added to a couple of pages. (You can watch it for free on Dailymotion)
While reading ‘The Electric Cotillion’ by Don Asher from 1972, one of the two of his books published by PAN, I keep looking at the cover trying to decipher the signature. Can anyone recognise it? The other book by Asher is ‘The Piano Sport’ from 1970
I bought a Picador copy of ‘Kristin Lavransdatter’ by Sigrid Undset because I liked the cover, Sigrid Undset (20/05/1882 – 10/06/1949) was a Danish-born Norwegian novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928. This is a compilation of her trilogy comprising ‘Kransen’, ‘Hisfrue’ and ‘Korset’ The cover is by Geoff Taylor whom I have communicated with in the past and at one time lived about 2 miles from me although we didn’t know that at the time. If you want to read it be warned you need strong wrists as this is a book of nearly 1,000 pages!