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The special collection of popular fiction at Sheffield Hallam University
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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 -
The Days of My Life (1926) by Henry Rider Haggard (Volume I)
Book Review by Sue Roe: Rider Haggard was prompted to write his autobiography by a rather bizarre occurrence: A while ago, it may have been a year or more, the... Read more
Posted on 26 June 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Something of Myself (1937) by Rudyard Kipling
Book Review by George S: Kipling began writing this autobiography in August 1935, and worked on it intermittently during the five months before his death in... Read more
Posted on 23 June 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE -
My Fellow Devils (1951) by L.P. Hartley
Book review by George S: At twenty-eight years old, Margaret Pennyfather is a model upright citizen. Unmarried, she looks after her father, does much local... Read more
Posted on 28 May 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Showboat (1926) by Edna Ferber
Book review by George S: Sorry, but this won’t be an entirely objective review, because I didn’t so much read this book as wallow in it. Read more
Posted on 15 May 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE -
The Brandons (1939), by Angela Thirkell (Again)
By Val Hewson The Brandons is, I think, the first Angela Thirkell novel I read, and it remains a favourite. Hilary Temple of the Angela Thirkell Society reviewe... Read more
Posted on 18 April 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Pal Joey (1940) by John O’Hara
Book Review by George S: Pal Joey began in the late 1930s as a series of short pieces in the New Yorker. Each of them was a letter from ‘your Pal Joey’ to a... Read more
Posted on 20 March 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE