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The special collection of popular fiction at Sheffield Hallam University
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Gallipoli Memories (1929) by Compton Mackenzie
Book Review by George S. We’ve been reading fiction by Compton Mackenzie this month, but I deviated from the brief slightly by reading an example of his... Read more
Posted on 10 May 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Women in Exile (1942) by Jean Ross
This wartime novel (written by Scottish author Irene Dale Hewson, but published pseudonymously) takes as its main subject the plight of women evacuees during th... Read more
Posted on 08 May 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Enduring Adventure (1944) by Norah C. James
Book Review by Sylvia D: Norah C[ordner] James (1896-1979) came from a wealthy Hampstead family and the British Library catalogue lists more than 70 books... Read more
Posted on 31 March 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Pillar of Cloud (1948) by Francis Stuart
By JV Dominic, an Irishman, finds himself in a small town in the French occupied region of post-war Germany. As a citizen of a neutral country (Eire) his... Read more
Posted on 08 March 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Twenty-Four Hours Leave (1943) by Renee Shann (pen Name of Carol Gaye)
By Helen N. This is an American edition (Triangle Books, New York 1944) of a 1943 British novel, which accounts for the cover which has a sketchy picture of a... Read more
Posted on 08 March 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Mr Norris Changes Trains (1935) by Christopher Isherwood – a Second Review
By ARP. Isherwood’s story Mr Norris Changes Trains is set in pre-war Berlin between 1935 and 1939. The story is filled with mystery from the beginning due to th... Read more
Posted on 08 March 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Mr Norris Changes Trains (1935) by Christopher Isherwood
By PG Mr Norris Changes Trains is a novel by Christopher Isherwood set in the early 1930s during the inter-war period. It’s a highly entertaining romp through... Read more
Posted on 08 March 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Something in My Heart (1944) by Walter Greenwood
Walter Greenwood is, of course, famous as the Salford author of the best remembered thirties depression novel, Love on the Dole, a novel which has had... Read more
Posted on 24 February 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Heat of the Day ( 1948) by Elizabeth Bowen
By LA It is war time in the blazing city of London and the beginning of this novel introduces the protagonist Stella and her two male interests. Read more
Posted on 23 February 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Death of the Heart (1938) by Elizabeth Bowen
By LMC Written by Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart (written in 1938), is one of her best known novels. The novel focuses on the main protagonist,... Read more
Posted on 23 February 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Coming Up for Air (1939) by George Orwell
By JF The author of this novel, George Orwell, most famously known for his satires on society in Animal Farm and 1984, here composes what can be interpreted as... Read more
Posted on 23 February 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Stamboul Train (1932) by Graham Greene
By JN The Orient Express, a fascinating machine transporting people from different walks of life across Europe in a web of murder, lies and love. Read more
Posted on 23 February 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Brideshead Revisited (1945) by Evelyn Waugh
By AW Written between December 1943 and June 1944 following a parachuting accident, Evelyn Waugh’s “operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely... Read more
Posted on 23 February 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Forbidden Zone (1929) by Mary Borden
By JM Mary Borden’s The Forbidden Zone, an accumulative collection of ‘fragments’ as termed by Borden, accrues both prose and poetry in a personal memoir of... Read more
Posted on 23 February 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Trooper to the Southern Cross (1934) by Angela Thirkell
Book review by George S: Trooper to the Southern Cross is a novel by Angela Thirkell, first published in 1934 under the pseudonym of ‘Leslie Parker’. Read more
Posted on 14 February 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Three Miss Kings by Ada Cambridge
Book review by Sylvia D: The Three Miss Kings by Ada Cambridge (1844-1926) was serialised in The Australasian in 1883. It was then published by Heinemann in... Read more
Posted on 13 February 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Walter Greenwood’s Saturday Night at the Crown (1959)
Walter Greenwood is best remembered for Love on the Dole (1933), but he went on writing until the nineteen sixties and remained a popular author. Read more
Posted on 10 February 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Helen of Four Gates (1917) by Ethel Carnie Holdsworth
Book review by George S: Ethel Carnie Holdsworth’s previous novel, Miss Nobody (1913), had not been a commercial success, and that may be one of the reasons... Read more
Posted on 12 January 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Man in Grey – a Regency Romance (1941), by Eleanor Smith
It’s tosh and I loved it. Bath gentility, Almack’s assemblies, gauzy frocks, curricles and phaetons, two aristocrats in a marriage of convenience, her lover an... Read more
Posted on 17 December 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE -
She Was His Wife (1936) by Augusta Varty-Smith
Book Review by Sylvia D: My second book from the Mark Valentine donation is Augusta Varty-Smith’s She Was His Wife, published by Heath Cranton in 1936. Read more
Posted on 15 December 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE