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What is afoot at Perceval Landon’s Thurnley Abbey?

February 3, 2023

[The following contains spoilers.] Perceval Landon’s ghost story “Thurnley Abbey” had first appeared in Raw Edges (1908), his only published …

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Short Story Review: “The Year of the Short Corn” by Fred Urquhart.

January 24, 2023

“The Year of the Short Corn” is a short story by the Scottish author Fred Urquhart and it also gives …

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Book Review: The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier.

January 7, 2023

[The following contains spoilers.] The Silver Sword is a children’s novel by Ian Serraillier that was first published in 1956. …

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Short Story Review: “Gentlemen, The Queen” and “Provide for Your Poor Sisters” by Fred Urquhart.

December 17, 2022

[“An Introduction to Exploring Fred Urquhart’s Short Stories.”] Fred Urquhart’s short stories “Gentlemen, the Queen” and “Provide For Your Poor …

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An Introduction to Exploring Fred Urquhart’s Short Stories.

December 9, 2022

If you are a genius then it is wonderful, of course, but it is never advisable to develop any genius …

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Book Review: Harold Wilson, The Winner.

December 2, 2022

In all likelihood the UK’s next prime minister will be Sir Keir Starmer. Last month, Sir Keir had signalled that …

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“Transphobia” in The Female Eunuch and the Story of April Ashley.

October 9, 2022

Clichés have always bedevilled the feminist Germaine Greer but I have grown interested lately in one that concerns her relationship …

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Book Review: The Book of Were-Wolves by Sabine Baring-Gould.

April 23, 2022

Sabine Baring-Gould was a Victorian clergyman and his The Book of Were-Wolves (1865) aims to achieve a historical and scientific …

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Book Review: The Awakenings by Sarah Maine.

April 20, 2022

[The following contains spoilers.] My reading over the Easter holiday has been a new novel: The Awakenings by Sarah Maine. …

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On the Rabbit in Women in Love.

April 16, 2022

I had read D H Lawrence’s 1920 novel Women in Love when I was an undergraduate. It was on one …

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Book Review: The Book of Nights (Le Livre de Nuits) by Sylvie Germain.

April 13, 2022

The sterility of magic realism. Everywhere within Sylvie Germain’s The Book of Nights one is met with the sterility of …

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Storytelling in Washington Irving’s Tales of a Traveller.

April 12, 2022

I had worked through American literature at university, in chronological order, and such was the rush to get to Edgar …

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Notes, Critical and Contextual, on RL Stevenson’s The Dynamiter: The Influence upon Arthur Machen’s “The Inmost Light.”

February 13, 2022

[This article was written several years ago but never published. I think that I was intending to revisit it when …

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Short Story Review: Man-Size In Marble.

January 27, 2022

[The following contains spoilers.] Two newlyweds have got London out of their hair and down in Kent, about two miles …

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Book Review: The Man With The Golden Gun.

January 18, 2022

[The following contains spoilers.] With one last, courageous effort, in January 1964 he tapped out the first draft…. Where once …

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