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The special collection of popular fiction at Sheffield Hallam University
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Adventures of Bindle (1919) by Herbert Jenkins
Book review by Hilary Temple I had never come across Herbert Jenkins before I found this book on the shelves of my parents-in-law, who otherwise showed a... Read more
Posted on 16 July 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Tenth Anniversary of Reading 1900-1950
Dear Reading 1900-1950 Blog followers, On the 19th July we are celebrating ten years of reading mainly popular fiction from the first half of the twentieth... Read more
Posted on 13 July 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Steel City Readers: Reading for Pleasure in Sheffield 1925-1955 – a...
Dear Reading 1900-1950 followers and contributors, This blog has now been running for a decade – since Erica Brown posted the first book review in July 2012. Read more
Posted on 25 June 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Northbridge Rectory (1941) by Angela Thirkell
Book review by Hilary Temple At this stage in Angela Thirkell’s Barsetshire saga we are in the second year of WWII. To emphasise this, the ten-bedroomed... Read more
Posted on 22 June 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Tales of Pirates and Blue Water (1922) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Book Review by George S: This 1922 volume contains stories written by Doyle over a long period, and the most striking are the four about the evil pirate Sharkey... Read more
Posted on 20 May 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
We Are Not Alone (1937) by James Hilton
Book review by George S: James Hilton wrote this novel after he had moved to Hollywood, and it reads rather like a movie treatment. We begin with opening shots... Read more
Posted on 19 April 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Lolly Willowes (1926) by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Book review by Sue R: Sylvia Townsend Warner was a poet, short story writer, novelist and musicologist. She wrote non- fiction works including a biography of... Read more
Posted on 03 April 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Le Bal (1930) and Snow in Autumn (1931), by Irène Némirovsky
Irène Némirovsky (1903-1942) was on my ‘to read’ list for a long time before our reading group’s decision to read European novels made me take down one of her... Read more
Posted on 29 March 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Middle of the Road (1922) by Philip Gibbs
Book Review by George S: Philip Gibbs was a so-so novelist, but a very good reporter. The saving grace of this 1922 novel is that in the second half, the... Read more
Posted on 18 March 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Launching of Roger Brook (1947) by Dennis Wheatley
In the middle of the 20th century, Dennis Wheatley (1897-1977) was a prolific and popular author of thrillers, best known for writing about the occult. Read more
Posted on 03 March 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Plebeian’s Progress, (1933) by Frank Tilsley
Book review by Chris Hopkins. Dust-wrapper of the US edition, published by Covici Friede in 1933 – it’s metaphoric image shows Allen and Jane being carried... Read more
Posted on 20 February 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Haunting of Toby Jugg (1948) by Dennis Wheatley
Book review by George S: The premise of this story is a gripping one: During the Second World War, Toby Jugg, a fighter-pilot, crashes and is paralysed from... Read more
Posted on 17 February 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Black Baroness (1940) by Dennis Wheatley
Book Review by Jane V: Bond meets Biggles – way out of my comfort zone. But what interested me most about this story is the speed with which reporting on... Read more
Posted on 16 February 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Steel Saraband (1938) by Roger Dataller
Book Review by Sylvia D: Roger Dataller was the pen name for Arthur Eaglestone, who was born in Rotherham in 1888 and started working in a steel mill at the... Read more
Posted on 15 February 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Children of the Dead End (1914) by Patrick MacGill
Book review by George S: The book’s subtitle is ‘The Autobiography of an Irish Navvy’ and its hero, Dermot Flynn, has many experiences in common with Patrick... Read more
Posted on 06 February 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Kiddar’s Luck (1951), by Jack Common
By Val Hewson This month we read working class fiction and I discovered a book which makes me think about where I come from. … Newcastle being a fine town to... Read more
Posted on 25 January 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958) by Alan Sillitoe
Book review by Alice C: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning was: ‘That rarest of all finds: a genuine, no-punches-pulled unromanticised working-class novel which... Read more
Posted on 23 January 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Beginning with a Bash (1935) by Alice Tilton
Review by Kathryn Rangeley: Like another member of the group, I chose to find a book by a woman in the hope that I might get the ‘hard-boiled’, tough aspect of... Read more
Posted on 12 January 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Impressions of Latterday Symphony (1927) by Romer Wilson
By Alison Butlin, Chris Hopkins, Mary Grover and Val Hewson Impressions of Latterday Symphony (1927) by Romer Wilson Recently our group read books by novelist,... Read more
Posted on 11 January 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Torment for Trixie (1950) by Hank Janson
Cover of the first edition. Book review by George S.: Torment for Trixie is the seventeenth of the over two hundred novels published under the name of Hank... Read more
Posted on 12 December 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE