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According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge is another sales find (yay! booksales!), a fictionalised “biography” of Samuel Johnson’s last 20 years, especially focusing on his relationship with the Thrales, and his infatuation with Mrs Thrale. The writer of the amazon synopsis labours under the misapprehension that Queeney – daughter of Mr and Mrs Thrale – [...]

This book is a tie-in to a BBC programme made to “celebrate” the 50th anniversary of J.B. Priestly’s English Journey. Bainbridge’s version is sub-titled “Being a rambling but truthful account of what one person saw and heard and felt and felt during a journey through England”, which I suspect is also a “rip-off” of Priestly. [...]