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James Norton and Morven Christie on the set of Grantchester 3, October 24, 2016 (photos Geoff Robinson)

When Mankind Was Young. F. Britten Austin. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page and Co. 1927. First edition. Original dust jacket. 

Collection of linked stories set in prehistoric times. “Druid rite when a human sacrifice was made, or at the festival where the fairest pair of lovers was offered to the savage god in the Spring to insure bountiful crops.”

This beautiful man gets me every time!

James Norton for Smythson

Shedding the Years. James Clark Bennett. New York: Capitol Book Company, 1925. First edition. Original dust jacket.

Scarce fantasy novel of a young man who loses his love to another man but who at the age of sixty discovers their daughter (both parents now being dead) and uses a rejuvenation treatment to return himself to the age of 35 to pursue her.

How To See Fairies. Charles Van Sandwyk. Vancouver: Fairy Press, [1992]. First edition, first printing. Original French flaps.

“So often when I sleep at night my dreams are overladen with vision of the fairy folk, led by a tiny maiden. They dance upon my furrowed brow till I have all but woken, and this is what they say to me, in words so softly spoken. ‘If you are up at the dead of night or just before the dawn, then you might see the fairy folk aplaying on the lawn.’”

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James Norton and Robson Green in a playful mood on the set of Grantchester’s Christmas special

Beautiful cabinetry.

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A Scene from Milton’s ‘Comus’ (exh.1844). Charles Robert Leslie (English, 1794-1859). Oil paint on canvas. Tate.

Seated on an enchanted chair, the Lady is immobilised, and Comus accosts her, holding a necromancer’s wand, he offers a vessel with a drink that would overpower her. Comus urges the Lady to “be not coy” and drink from his magical cup (representing sexual pleasure and intemperance), but she repeatedly refuses, arguing for the virtuousness of temperance and chastity.

James Norton as Andrey Bolkonskiy, War and peace, 2016 source

Love hinders death. Love is life. All, everything that I understand. I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists , only because I love. - Andrei Bolkonsky (Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace)

You are so used to your features, you don’t know how beautiful you look to a stranger.

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Harvest Full Moon tonight

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Gardens of Lorien

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if the ocean can calm itself so can you. we are both salt water mixed with air       - meditation

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That moment when you have to take a deep breath before speaking cause you know you’re so close to crying.

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James Norton in War and Peace

The growth of language popularity across the globe (via A new way of looking at the world’s languages | World Economic Forum)