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Across the Black Waters (1939) by Mulk Raj Anand
Book Review by George S: Across the Black Waters is the second volume in a trilogy by Mulk Raj Anand. The other volumes are: The Village, which describes the... Read more
Posted on 22 December 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Passing (1929), by Nella Larsen
For December 2018, we looked at novels by Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) writers working between 1900 and 1950. I read Passing by the American author Nella... Read more
Posted on 20 December 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Castle Gay (1930) by John Buchan
Cover of the first edition (1930) Book Review by George S: Castle Gay is the second of John Buchan’s Dickson McCunn novels. The first was Huntingtower (1921)... Read more
Posted on 19 November 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Hatter’s Castle (1931) by A J Cronin
Book Review by Sylvia D: I decided to read Hatter’s Castle for the Scottish and Welsh session, because, apart from the treatment of its women characters,... Read more
Posted on 09 November 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Blue Danube (1943) by Eunice Buckley
Book review by George S: Blue Danube is the third novel to appear under the name of Eunice Buckley, but its author had written other books and plays before,... Read more
Posted on 02 October 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE -
First the Blade (1918) by Clemence Dane
Clemence Dane Book Review by Sylvia D. First the Blade: A Comedy of Growth, a coming of age novel and an unresolved love story, was Clemence Dane’s second... Read more
Posted on 24 September 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Enter Sir John (1929) by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson
Enter Sir John is a detective story. It’s a book I’ve mildly wanted to read for many years, ever since seeing Murder!, the slightly odd 1930 film that Alfred... Read more
Posted on 24 September 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Miss Bunting (1945) by Angela Thirkell
(published by Hamish Hamilton) Book review by Hilary Temple. Jane Austen notoriously ‘didn’t mention the war’ in her novels according to some critics – though... Read more
Posted on 06 August 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Caroline Terrace (1955) by Warwick Deeping
Book review by Frances S. Warwick Deeping died in 1950. Caroline Terrace was published posthumously in 1955. Having known Deeping only by repute as a formerly... Read more
Posted on 29 July 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Woman of Knockaloe (1923) by Hall Caine
Review by George S: This novel comes with two forewords, one by Newman Flower, the head of Cassell’s publishing house, and one by the author. Read more
Posted on 25 July 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE -
All Things Betray Thee (1949) by Gwyn Thomas
Book Review by Sylvia D. Gwyn Thomas (1913-1981)is one of Wales’s great literary figures. He was born in the Rhondda and won a scholarship to read Spanish at... Read more
Posted on 09 July 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Cheerfulness Breaks In (1940) by Angela Thirkell
Book review by Hilary Temple. (Published by Hamish Hamilton) Cheerfulness Breaks In might seem an odd title for a novel dealing with the outbreak of WWII. Read more
Posted on 31 May 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) by James M. Cain
Book Review by Sylvia D: The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934) was James M. Cain’s first published novel. Cain (1882-1977) was initially a journalist and an... Read more
Posted on 19 May 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Sally’s in the Alley by Norbert Davis (1943)
Book Review by George S: Norbert Davis was an American author of detective fiction. I first heard of him when I was reading about Ludwig Wittgenstein’s taste... Read more
Posted on 09 May 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE -
I Find Four People (1935) by Pamela Frankau
Book Review by George S: This is Pamela Frankau’s autobiography, a version of her life so far, published in 1935, when she was twenty-seven. (I read a Penguin... Read more
Posted on 09 May 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE -
New Walter Greenwood Site
Dear Reading 1900-1950 colleagues, Having posted my review of Greenwood’s memoir There Was a Time (1967) – and thus broken every rule about this blog’s... Read more
Posted on 31 March 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE -
There Was a Time (1967) by Walter Greenwood
Book review by Chris Hopkins. Strictly speaking There Was a Time is a memoir and not a novel and so perhaps should not properly be reviewed here (and moreover i... Read more
Posted on 30 March 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Love Among the Ruins (1948) by Angela Thirkell
Book Review by George S: Love Among the Ruins is a depiction of upper-class and upper-middle class families in rural England a couple of years after the second... Read more
Posted on 19 March 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE -
John Strachey, Digging for Mrs Miller (1941)
This review on the Neglected Books site looks of interest for us: Read more
Posted on 12 March 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1926) by Anita Loos
Book Review by Chris Hopkins. I had to read Gentlemen Prefer Blondes because I started reading what I suspected was a parody of it, but couldn’t be sure... Read more
Posted on 03 March 2018 BOOKS, CULTURE