Book Review: The Death of Sir Martin Malprelate.
[The following contains spoilers.] It should be an open-and-shut case. Sir Martin Malprelate has been run over by a train, …
[The following contains spoilers.] It should be an open-and-shut case. Sir Martin Malprelate has been run over by a train, …
[The following contains spoilers.] Paul Lynch is an Irish writer and his dystopian novel Prophet Song won the Booker Prize …
In 1843, Charles Dickens produced a visionary work whose theme, moral and ideal are all Christmas. A literary buzz about …
Tom Devine, the Scottish historian, is fond of saying, “I am a historian – the future is not my period.” …
Mark Twain’s comedic memoir Roughing It (1872) begins with him travelling by stagecoach to Nevada and thereafter continuing on to …
Once the USA had had a frontier and it had been sublime. In the eyes of its European invaders, and …
One day in New Delhi there was a commotion outside a shopping mall. A student from the nearby Jawaharlal Nehru …
Midway through his memoir and travelogue Life on the Mississippi (1883), Mark Twain describes the model home that had once …
Harriet Wasson Styer’s Facts, by a Woman (1881) is in no immediate need of an introduction. No copy of this …
Another witch. Today’s reader will be thoroughly tired of witches before they even get started on Hex, the new novella …
I like to sharpen my German on occasional, chance items, rather as a parrot will trim its beak on offcuts …
Despite following his well-turned-out novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and The Prince and the Pauper (1881), Mark Twain’s …
[The following contains spoilers.] I have never read the writings of Karl Jung. Indeed I am still today – after …
[The following contains spoilers.] The Silver Sword is a children’s novel by Ian Serraillier that was first published in 1956. …
In all likelihood the UK’s next prime minister will be Sir Keir Starmer. Last month, Sir Keir had signalled that …