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The special collection of popular fiction at Sheffield Hallam University
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Sister Anne Resigns (1931) by Josephine Elder
Book review by George Simmers: Josephine Elder is a pseudonym of Dr Olive Potter (1895 – 1988), one of the first female doctors to be trained at the London... Read more
Posted on 13 January 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Aflame with Love and Revolt – Bhowani Junction (1954)
I came across Bhowani Junction years ago, in the shape of the spectacular 1956 MGM film starring Ava Gardner and Stewart Granger and directed by George Cukor. Read more
Posted on 16 November 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Uninvited Guests by Parr Cooper (1946)
This interesting novel is set around 1943/44 in a small settlement in rural India, which is dominated by an Army training camp. Read more
Posted on 15 November 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE -
King of the Khyber Rifles (1916) by Talbot Mundy
Book review by George Simmers: The opening paragraphs tell us what to expect: The men who govern India—more power to them and her!—are few. Read more
Posted on 03 November 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Police at the Funeral (1931) by Margery Allingham
Book review by Sylvia D. My Queen of Crime novel was Police at the Funeral by Margery Allingham (pub 1931 by Heinemann. My edition is a Penguin Classic Crime... Read more
Posted on 23 September 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Speedy Death (1929) by Gladys Mitchell
Book Review by George S: Speedy Death was Gladys Mitchell’s first detective novel. It introduces Mrs Bradley, her psychoanalyst detective, who would go on to... Read more
Posted on 15 September 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Josephine Tey and the Psychological Detective Story (The Franchise Affair)
By Val Hewson Josephine Tey (1896-1952), who wrote The Franchise Affair (1948) and seven other detective stories between 1929 and 1952, is not one of the... Read more
Posted on 14 September 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE -
A Deed Without a Name by Dorothy Bowers (1940)
I’m not sure if Dorothy Bowers quite counts as a Queen of Crime (our topic for this month), though I would like to think so. Her novels were highly thought of a... Read more
Posted on 12 September 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE -
‘Vivandière’ (1929) by Phoebe Fenwick Gaye
Phoebe Fenwick Gaye (1905-2001) Book Review by Sylvia D. Reading Group members may remember the delightful poem by Phoebe Fenwick Gaye that was circulated to... Read more
Posted on 02 September 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Lieutenant Hornblower (1952) by C.S. Forester
Book review by Sylvia D. Lieutenant Hornblower was published by Michael Joseph in 1952 but I read the 1957 Great Pan paperback edition which has a very... Read more
Posted on 11 August 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Westwood by Stella Gibbons
Most people only know Stella Gibbons for writing Cold Comfort Farm, her first novel. But she went on to write more than 20 novels and Westwood, published in 194... Read more
Posted on 17 July 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE -
C S Forester’s Hornblower and the Atropos (1953)
Review by Val H: Boy’s Own Plus. That’s Hornblower and the Atropos: an exploration of leadership within an exciting swashbuckler. The action takes place after... Read more
Posted on 16 July 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Happy Return (1937) by C. S. Forester
Review by George S. The Happy Return was the first of Forester’s Hornblower novels to be published, though later books would fill in the hero’s earlier career. Read more
Posted on 11 July 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Cloudless May by Storm Jameson
Review by Sylvia D For our women writers and World Wars One and Two session I read Storm Jameson’s Cloudless May (Macmillan, 1943 and still in print) which is... Read more
Posted on 30 June 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE -
High Wages (1930) by Dorothy Whipple
Review by Sylvia D. High Wages is one of Dorothy Whipple’s early novels. It was first published in 1930 and was republished by Persephone in 2009 and the... Read more
Posted on 10 June 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Tadpole Hall by Helen Ashton (1941)
This is a war novel which focuses on the home front rather than on active service. It is 1939 and the village of Lambscot is facing the threat and then the... Read more
Posted on 09 June 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Book Review: The Well of Loneliness (1928) by Radclyffe Hall
Review by George Simmers. The Reading Groups have been looking at war books by women this month. The one I selected is better known for other reasons, but the... Read more
Posted on 09 June 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The War-Workers* (1918) by E M Delafield (EMD)
EMD by Howard Coster, 1930s This month we have been reading books about women in war… I was looking things up for this review and found: ‘…those who knew her... Read more
Posted on 06 June 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE -
That Hideous Strength by CS Lewis
This is the third in C.S. Lewis’s Science Fiction trilogy but unlike the first two books which were set on Mars and Venice respectively, this book is set on... Read more
Posted on 31 May 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Someone at a Distance by Dorothy Whipple (1953)
Review by George S. Warning: I couldn’t write this one without including plot spoilers. Last month was Whipple month at the Reading Group. I had not read any... Read more
Posted on 26 May 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE