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The special collection of popular fiction at Sheffield Hallam University
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Mrs Miniver (1939) by Jan Struther
Book Review by Sylvia D.: For our comfort reading session, I initially considered one of the books I had loved as a child but then discovered I had parted... Read more
Posted on 03 December 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Full Moon (1947) by P.G. Wodehouse
Book Review by George S: November is the Group’s comfort reading month, so instinctively I went for a P.G. Wodehouse. I thought Full Moon might be a Blandings... Read more
Posted on 15 November 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Cold Comfort Farm (1932) by Stella Gibbons
Book Review by Jane V. Stella Gibbons trained as a journalist but thought of herself as a poet. She wrote many other novels but Cold Comfort Farm was her first... Read more
Posted on 13 November 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Man and Maid (1922) by Elinor Glyn
Elinor Glyn Book Review by George S: This is a thoroughly unpleasant book. It takes the form of the journal of Sir Nicholas Thormonde, who has been wounded in... Read more
Posted on 22 October 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Gate Marked Private (1928) by Ethel M Dell
Book review by Sylvia Dunkley: I listened with fascination to all the tales of rape and violence in most of the books by Ethel M Dell read by the other members... Read more
Posted on 21 October 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Happy Jack (1936) by Max Brand
Book Review by George S: Happy Jack was published in book form in 1936, but it had first appeared in 1930, as a serial in Western Story Magazine, under one of... Read more
Posted on 14 September 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Heritage of the Sioux (1916) by BM Bower
Book Review by Kathryn R: Bower was a prolific writer of westerns. She wrote novels short stories and screenplays. She made a good living at it – shown by the... Read more
Posted on 03 September 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Summer Half (1937) by Angela Thirkell
Book Review by Hilary Temple ‘It seems to me highly improbable that any such school, masters, or boys could ever have existed. Read more
Posted on 30 July 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Sylvester (1957) by Georgette Heyer
I have been a fan of Georgette Heyer since a teacher recommended her, in an attempt to get the class in the mood for our Year 10 set book, Pride and Prejudice.... Read more
Posted on 16 July 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Toll-Gate (1955) by Georgette Heyer
Book Review by George S.: I’ve read reviews on the internet complaining that The Toll-Gate is not a proper ‘Regency Romance’ in the usual Georgette Heyer manner... Read more
Posted on 11 July 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Woman’s Journal, December 1927
Magazine Review by Jane V: Cover portrait – The Countess of Cromer, by Philip A. de Laszlo MVO Serials Life of Elizabeth Bowes Lyon, Duchess of York by Lady... Read more
Posted on 12 June 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Brandons (1939) by Angela Thirkell
Book Review by Hilary Temple. Written in 1938, this represents the calm before the storm in Barsetshire (and elsewhere in the world). Read more
Posted on 08 May 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE -
An Eye for a Tooth (1943) – Dornford Yates
Book review by George S: This is one of Dornford Yates’s Chandos series of thrillers. The cover of the first edition makes that very clear. Read more
Posted on 06 May 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Slaves of Solitude (1947) by Patrick Hamilton
Book Review by George S: This is a book about low-level nastiness during the Second World War. It is set in Thames Lockton, a town very like Henley-on Thames,... Read more
Posted on 24 April 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE -
To Beg I Am Ashamed (1938) by Sheila Graham
This book is subtitled The Autobiography of a London Prostitute, and was originally intended to be published by Routledge in 1938. The papers heard about it, an... Read more
Posted on 23 March 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Sleeveless Errand (1929) by Norah C James
Book review by Sylvia D: For the Reading Groups Second World War session, I read Enduring Adventure by Norah C James (1896-1979), a novel about the impact of th... Read more
Posted on 16 March 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Compulsory Husband (1928), by John Glyder
By Janice Maskort and Val Hewson ‘John who?’ we said at Reading 1900-1950, where we think we know our popular 20th century writers. John Glyder came to notice... Read more
Posted on 11 March 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Summer Will Show (1936) by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Book Review by George S: Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes (1926) is about a woman leaving an ordinary environment and developing in extraordinary ways... Read more
Posted on 25 February 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Lolly Willowes (1926) by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Book Review by Sylvia D: Lolly Willowes or The Loving Huntsman, by Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978) was her first successful novel, published in 1926 when... Read more
Posted on 12 February 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932) by Sax Rohmer
In 1936, fifteen-year old Mary Wilkinson began to keep a record of her reading, and continued it for several years. This month members of the Reading Group... Read more
Posted on 21 January 2019 BOOKS, CULTURE