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The special collection of popular fiction at Sheffield Hallam University
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Judgment on Deltchev (1951) by Eric Ambler
Book Review by Sylvia D: Judgment on Deltchev is a political thriller set in a fictitious Balkan state at the time of the East European show trials in the... Read more
Posted on 18 January 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Uncommon Danger (1937) by Eric Ambler
First edition cover Book Review by George S: Kenton is a journalist taking a train from Berlin to Vienna. Sachs, a rather dubious stranger, persuades him to... Read more
Posted on 13 January 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Journey into Fear (1940) – Eric Ambler
The book was filmed in 1943 – produced by Orson Welles, starring Joseph Cotten and Dolores del Rio. In the film, Graham is American and some of the plot has bee... Read more
Posted on 12 January 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Grey Mask (1929) by Patricia Wentworth – Another Review
How the American public first encountered Grey Mask. Review by Mary Grover (containing spoilers): Reading my first Patricia Wentworth, heralded as a writer... Read more
Posted on 23 December 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Bungalow Mystery (1923) by Annie Haynes
Annie Haynes Book Review by Sylvia D: Haynes was born in Leicestershire in 1865. By 1908 she was living in London with the daughter of an eminent orthopaedic... Read more
Posted on 20 December 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Grey Mask (1929) by Patricia Wentworth
Cover of the first American edition. Book Review by George S: Charles Moray comes back from four years abroad, and is surprised to find that his empty house is... Read more
Posted on 17 December 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Founder of the House (1935) by Naomi Jacob
Naomi Jacob Book Review by Frances S: The Founder of House is described as the first volume of Naomi Jacob’s seven-volume Gollantz saga, which seemed a good... Read more
Posted on 30 November 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Peter West (1923) and The English Air (1940) by D.E, Stevenson
Book review by Mary G: When I read that D. E. Stevenson came from the same family as Robert Louis Stevenson and wrote romantic novels, I immediately assumed,... Read more
Posted on 20 November 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Young Clementina by D.E. Stevenson (another Review)
Book review by Sylvia D.: The Young Clementina was first published in 1935 under the title Divorced from Reality. Neither title seems very apt as the novel is... Read more
Posted on 20 November 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Young Clementina (1935) by D.E. Stevenson
Book review by George S: I ordered this book from Kindle as The Young Clementina, partly because its cover picture suggested a light and jolly romp. Read more
Posted on 19 November 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Little Boy Lost (1949) by Marghanita Laski
Book review by Sylvia D: I don’t know where Marghanita Laski sits in the Pantheon of novelists published between 1900 and 1950 but a Persephone Books The Captiv... Read more
Posted on 15 October 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Magnolia Street (1932) by Louis Golding
Book review by George S.: Magnolia Street is rather like two later books, Howard Spring’s Manchester saga, Fame is the Spur, and Walter Greenwood’s Love on the... Read more
Posted on 14 October 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Mystery in Geneva (1922) by Rose Macaulay
Cover of first edition (1922) Book Review by Kathryn R: Mystery at Geneva – An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings is a short novel, telling the story of... Read more
Posted on 28 September 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Crewe Train (1926) by Rose Macaulay (another Review)
Book review by Sylvia D: This novel has the most wonderful dedication: ‘To the Philistines, The Barbarians, The Unsociables and those who do not care to take an... Read more
Posted on 17 September 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Potterism (1920) by Rose Macaulay
Book review by George Simmers: In this novel, Rose Macaulay gives her diagnosis of what is wrong with Britain after the end of the First World War. She sums thi... Read more
Posted on 16 September 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE -
They Were Defeated (1932) by Rose Macaulay
Book Review by Mary Grover: They were Defeated was said to be Rose Macaulay’s favorite novel. Published in 1932, this historical novel about intellectual life... Read more
Posted on 16 September 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Crewe Train (1926) by Rose Macaulay
Book review by Frances S: ‘We have some very bright evenings. There’s a nice reading circle, too.’‘A what?’ Denham was apprehensive.‘A reading circle. You all... Read more
Posted on 13 September 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Madam, Will You Talk? (1955) by Mary Stewart (another Review)
Will you accept of the key of my heart To bind us together and to never never part? Madam, will you walk? Madam, will you talk with me? No, I won’t accept of th... Read more
Posted on 03 September 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Living Alone (1919) by Stella Benson
Stella Benson Book review by Sophie H: Stella Benson’s 1919 novel Living Alone opens with an eccentric young woman (who is later revealed to have magical powers... Read more
Posted on 01 September 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Flight of the Heron (1925) by D.K. Broster
Book Review by Frances S: The Flight of the Heron is an adventure set in Scotland during the Jacobite rising of 1745-46 when Charles Edward Stuart tried to... Read more
Posted on 24 August 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE