Where are you my treasures? Where have I put my Mapp and Lucia series - where oh where?
I have read them so many times and just felt like reading them again - they are a real comfort read for me, but where are they?
Too many bookshelves/bookcases I will try again tomorrow. (these are just a few of my shelves, I have another 8 or 9 to go through)
In the meantime do you think asking St Anthony would help 
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Heavens Fatgran I thought those were my bookshelves for a moment! Would they be from a certain northern European mega chain of furnishing retailers?
I share your enthusiasm for Mapp and Lucia. Had to throw away my ancient paperbacks last year (falling apart, stained, yuck) but replaced them with new omnibus editions so that I can still re-read them!
I do hope you find your Bensons soon.
Oh yes Barbara Pym, Dorothy Whipple, D E Stevenson, Elizabeth Taylor (not the actress!) Elizabeth Goudge and others of that ilk were my comfort reads you knew you were safe when you read one of those books.
Actually have some Barbara Pym on my library wish list at the moment.
annsixty thank you but very few people see the inside of my home, I am very reclusive !
Gaunt47 my husband made most of the bookshelves in that room all the ones running under the windows and the white built in ones also.
He was a builder once and has taught himself to make any number of things - he made this pair of chairs,(other pic won't load) bought a set of woodcarving tools, carved the legs and arms himself, not the upholstery but he has since learned to do that also! The only problem that he will never do the same thing again - once done he tires of that craft and finds something new to try.
Sorry Fatgran but i think you must have loaned them to me because i have just found them on my bookcase, i will read and return soon
grannypiper I hope you enjoy them and when you have finished I hope they will magically appear back on MY bookshelves
I recently re read all the Mapp and Lucias for the fiftieth time! I am currently re reading the Provincial Lady. When DD was little she loved the Geraldine McKewen and Prunella Scales TV series, which she called Mapp and Lucy
Update I have found some of them!! Only the paperback ones and one is missing, can't find my old hardcover volumes maybe I sold them on ebay
QuaintIrene St Anthony must have listened to you, with your username you must have felt my pain at misplacing my books
By the way have any of you read the Guy Fraser-Sampson Mapp and Lucia novels or the Tom Holt ones? I did read the latter and while quite good just weren't right somehow.
Anyway I also found my lovely John S Goodall books, my Anne of Green Gables series and my Little Women, Jo's Boys, Little Men etc so quite a good haul. Not that I will be reading all of them any time soon but at least I know where they are. Also a complete set of Daphne du Maurier haven't read her for years, may not enjoy them now.
grannypiper you must have been practising your speed reading skills! The fairies were super fast in getting them back to me, however one seems to be missing 
Jane10 it's a shame that all these books will probably never be read by the younger generation. I guess all my books will end up on the tip when I am gone
The real horror is that when some young people do read it is "Fifty Shades of Grey" or similar monstrosities. They will never know the joy of reading lovely books.
I love Mapp and Lucia,but our copies are at our house in France but intend to load them onto my Kindle . I have also got the compendium copy of all the Provincial Lady's diaries.
Loved Barbara Pym about 40 years ago when I first read them. Tried to reread them again recently and they set my teeth on edge.
My confort author is Georgette Heyer, fantasy stories in a meticulously accurate historical setting.
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