From the bookshelves 48,49

     I like a bit of word play in a title. Geoffrey Household was 84 years old when this was published. A nicely short (by today's standards) novel of 135 pages (approximately 33075 words). Published by Atlantic Monthly Press in the US. His first story appeared in The Atlantic Monthly in 1936.  From the jacket blurb: "Seven hundred years after the Age of Destruction, all is not well in the new Euro-African Federation settlement at Avebury . . . . - both a spoof of the English character and a vote of confidence in its simple staying power."

     His fist novel was published in 1936: The Terror of Villadonga or as I know it The Spanish Cave. A good mystery yarn for children. My sister inscribed my copy on the flyleaf: Alan,with love from Anthea. January 1961.

This Earlham Library edition was published by The Bodley Head, London 1960; price 10/6d (52½p) Hardback.