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Purloined books: Amazon, salmon and la Poste

I recently ordered some books from Amazon.co.uk which never arrived. This is the fifth time that books sent from England have not been delivered to me in France. They were not all Amazon packages - one was a birthday present, one an Amazon marketplace purchase forwarded to me by my mother, another two deliveries of books that I had written.

Now I have moved house there is no possibility that anyone could reach into my letterbox and steal the books from there, and I suspect the postal service (I also once saw a documentary about just how much theft there is from within the French postal service). A friend of mine also had some smoked salmon and children's clothes disappear into thin air after being posted from England.

I wonder if any other members have had books lost/stolen by the postal service, and got any compensation from La Poste or Amazon (even if it is not their fault - they have not even replied to my email about it). I am considering reporting this to the police. Obviously it is much better to support a local bookseller, but in this case I needed the books fast and two of them would have had to be ordered.

Alison Culliford

Jacqueline Karp, ed., Reporting from Palestine 1943-44

Reporting from Palestine 1943-44 by Barbara Board, edited by SOAF member Jacqueline Karp, is just out with Five Leaves Publications (£9.99). This is a mother-and-daughter effort, with Jacqueline editing and publishing a manuscript of her mother's she found under the bed when her mother died. Barbara Board was a Middle East reporter for the Daily Sketch and the Daily Mirror between 1936 and 1946. She lived in Palestine from 1940-1946. This book, her third, was withdrawn from publication by Michael Joseph because of the post-war paper shortage... and quickly became out of date. Now her description of daily life and her meetings with people of all religious and political groups are more than topical again. And she has a knack of asking questions we are still asking today. Jacqueline has spent many months researching the background to the book and went last November to Israel and the occupied territories to meet up with descendants of people her mother talked to. Jacqueline will be at the May 27th NUJ Paris branch meeting to talk about her book.