Monday, 21 May 2018

Review: Megan Hunter, The End We Start From

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The publicity departments of corporate publishing like to decorate book covers with the Ooohs! and Aahs! of the great and the good...
Sunday, 20 May 2018

Review: Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

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I read this over a weekend when many of my fellow Ruritanians (and dare I say, most of them female) were transfixed by the wedding of...
Tuesday, 15 May 2018

Review: John le Carre, The Looking Glass War

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This novel was first published in 1965 and the publishers call it “The Fourth George Smiley Novel” though Smiley is really rather pe...
Wednesday, 9 May 2018

Review: Neil Badmington, The Afterlives of Roland Barthes

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Advice to writers: 1.       If you want to be remembered for the works you have signed off on – the works which have been printe...
Tuesday, 24 April 2018

Fake Words: Problems of Transliteration from Russian and Ukrainian

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The late Fred Halliday – a Professor who once warned the London School of Economics against entangling itself with the Gaddafi regime – th...
Sunday, 22 April 2018

Review: Sara Baume A Line Made By Walking

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This is very good. There is really no plot, but right through I wanted to keep reading. It’s true that I did not read it as a novel ...
Saturday, 21 April 2018

Review: Kelley Swain, The Naked Muse

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This is a readable, gently written and gently paced book which spins off reflections on painting and (briefly) photography from the...