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• Dope-Darling – A Story of Cocaine(1919) by Leda Burke (David Garnett)

  

  Book Review by George S: David Garnett was one of the younger members of the Bloomsbury set. His father was Edward Garnett, the critic and publisher, and his... Read more

  Posted on 17 November 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Three Sisters (1914) by May Sinclair

  

  Book Review by Alice :This is the story of three sisters and their pastor father who relocate to the tiny, isolated rural parish of Garth in Garthsdale. Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Green Rushes (1935) by Maurice Walsh

  

  Book Review by George Simmers: Maurice Walsh (1879 -1964) was a popular Irish writer, and this is a book of five interlocking stories, all of them set in Irelan... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Getaway (1932) by Leslie Charteris

  

  Book review by George Simmers: This is the ninth of the Saint books to be published, later it would be retitled The Saint’s Getaway, to make sure, I suppose,... Read more

  Posted on 14 July 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Rough Road (1918) by William J. Locke

  

  Book Review by George S: Locke is a difficult writer to classify. In 1919, J.C. Squire wrote: The position of Mr W.J.Locke has always been a little odd. Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Patrol (1926) by Philip Macdonald

  

  Book Review by George Simmers: This is a Great War novel set in Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq), where British army units were fighting the Turks, and also... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Reflections in a Golden Eye (1941) by Carson McCullers

  

  Book Review by George Simmers: Reflections in a Golden Eye is set on an isolated American army base, and like a classical tragedy brings together a group of... Read more

  Posted on 06 March 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940) by Carson McCullers

  

  Book Review by Alison B: The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter is Carson McCuller’s first novel, published when she was twenty three years old. Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Haunted Boy (1955) by Carson McCullers

  

  Book Review by Sylvia D: The Haunted Boy brings together three short stories, A Domestic Dilemma (first published in Mademoiselle in 1950), The Sojourner... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Lark Rise to Candleford (1945) by Flora Thompson

  

  Book review by Sue R: Flora Thompson wrote the three books which were published in one volume in 1945: Lark Rise(1939), Over to Candleford(1941) and Candleford... Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Financial Times (1942) by Ronald Fraser

  

  Book Review by Chris Hopkins. I had never heard of Ronald Fraser, but bought this novel on impulse in a charity shop several decades ago because I liked the... Read more

  Posted on 31 January 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Psmith in the City (1910) by P.G. Wodehouse

  

  Book Review by George Simmers: Psmith in the City is maybe P.G. Wodehouse’s most autobiographical novel, in that he was in the same predicament as its hero. Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Cwmardy (1937) by Lewis Jones

  

  Book Review by Jane V: Choosing a novel about the lives of miners in the South Wales coal fields was an obvious choice for me. The last of my forebears to ‘go... Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Over the Frontier (1938) by Stevie Smith

  

  Book Review by George S: I have often enjoyed Stevie Smith’s poetry, but had never tried her fiction. This month at the Popular Fiction Reading Group we are... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Richard Chatterton V.C. (1915) by Ruby M. Ayres

  

  Book review by George Simmers: The Great War came as something of a boon to romantic novelists. It offered dramatic new ways of refreshing all their favourite... Read more

  Posted on 16 November 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Pretty Lady (1918) by Arnold Bennett

  

  Book review by George Simmers: The Pretty Lady (1918) was Arnold Bennett’s novel of wartime London. It centres on the relationship between Christine, a French... Read more

  Posted on 07 November 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Three Came Unarmed (1929) by E. Arnot Robertson

  

  Book review by George S: This novel begins brilliantly, with a virtuoso description of a young man stalking babirusa, the wild pig of Borneo. Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Man from Ceylon (1950) by Ruby M. Ayres

  

  Book review by Kathryn Rangeley: Ruby Mildred Ayres (1881 – 1955) was a prolific writer of more than 135 romance novels. Her writing career started in 1912 and... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Herb of Grace (1948) and Gentian Hill (1950) by Elizabeth Goudge

  

  Gentian Hill reviewed by Alison: The two novels Mary and I read would seem very different. The one I read, Gentian Hill, is an historical novel set at the... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Pack My Bag (1940) by Henry Green

  

  Book Review by Chris Hopkins. Henry Green (1905-1973) was the pen name of Henry Yorke, a contemporary of writers such as Elizabeth Bowen, Graham Greene,... Read more

  Posted on 28 June 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE