Book Review: The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier.
[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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Book Review: Harold Wilson, The Winner.
In all likelihood the UK’s next prime minister will be Sir Keir Starmer. Last month, Sir Keir had signalled that …
“Transphobia” in The Female Eunuch and the Story of April Ashley.
Clichés have always bedevilled the feminist Germaine Greer but I have grown interested lately in one that concerns her relationship …
Book Review: The Book of Were-Wolves by Sabine Baring-Gould.
Sabine Baring-Gould was a Victorian clergyman and his The Book of Were-Wolves (1865) aims to achieve a historical and scientific …
Book Review: The Awakenings by Sarah Maine.
[The following contains spoilers.] My reading over the Easter holiday has been a new novel: The Awakenings by Sarah Maine. …
On the Rabbit in Women in Love.
I had read D H Lawrence’s 1920 novel Women in Love when I was an undergraduate. It was on one …
Book Review: The Book of Nights (Le Livre de Nuits) by Sylvie Germain.
The sterility of magic realism. Everywhere within Sylvie Germain’s The Book of Nights one is met with the sterility of …
Storytelling in Washington Irving’s Tales of a Traveller.
I had worked through American literature at university, in chronological order, and such was the rush to get to Edgar …
Notes, Critical and Contextual, on RL Stevenson’s The Dynamiter: The Influence upon Arthur Machen’s “The Inmost Light.”
[This article was written several years ago but never published. I think that I was intending to revisit it when …
Short Story Review: Man-Size In Marble.
[The following contains spoilers.] Two newlyweds have got London out of their hair and down in Kent, about two miles …
Book Review: The Man With The Golden Gun.
[The following contains spoilers.] With one last, courageous effort, in January 1964 he tapped out the first draft…. Where once …
Book Review: The Ruin Of All Witches.
In seventeenth-century New England witches were often hunted with a great deal of circumspection. The evidence for their guilt had …
Book Review: High Spirits.
It is quite obviously wrong for ghosts to be funny but it is a graver sin when they are harmless. …
Book Review: Mahomet and His Successors.
What is the significance of Washington Irving’s combined biography and historical epic Mahomet and His Successors (1849-)? Today it is …
Book Review: Pine by Francine Toon.
[The following contains spoilers.] Pine is a debut novel by Francine Toon (who is otherwise the poet Francine Elena) and …
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