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 Devil’s Bridge” is contained within William Fryer Harvey’s third published volume of short stories, The Beast with Five Fingers …
[The following contains spoilers.] Paul Lynch is an Irish writer and his dystopian novel Prophet Song won the Booker Prize …
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Another witch. Today’s reader will be thoroughly tired of witches before they even get started on Hex, the new novella …
… a great spirit (daimon), and like all spirits he is intermediate between the divine and the mortal… He interprets… …
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 …
[I have been reading books by D.H. Lawrence and Ernest Hemingway since my early twenties. To my bewilderment I suddenly …