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• Event on Famous British Authors of 1937 Wills Cigarette Cards Series

  

  Four Bestsellers Lost and Found images On the afternoon of Saturday 18th November 2017, we will be holding an event at Sheffield Hallam University to explore wh... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Rector’s Daughter (1924) by F. M. Mayor

  

  Book review by George S: The first sentence of this book sets an unromantic tone: Dedmayne is an insignificant village in the Eastern counties. Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Mrs Frensham Describes a Circle (1943) by Richmal Crompton

  

  Book review by George S: Mrs Frensham Describes a Circle is about an extended family in an English country town during the Blitz. Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Poor Caroline (1931) by Winifred Holtby

  

  Book review by Sylvia D:  Poor Caroline is a satire in which Holtby pokes fun at the worlds of philanthropy and religion but also introduces other themes: the... Read more

  Posted on 26 July 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Vanity Girl (1920) by Compton Mackenzie

  

  Book review by Sylvia D: When Compton Mackenzie’s The Vanity Girl (the copy I read being the Remploy reprint of 1973) was first published in 1920 by Macdonald,... Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Gallipoli Memories (1929) by Compton Mackenzie

  

  Book Review by George S. We’ve been reading fiction by Compton Mackenzie this month, but I deviated from the brief slightly by reading an example of his... Read more

  Posted on 10 May 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Women in Exile (1942) by Jean Ross

  

  This wartime novel (written by Scottish author Irene Dale Hewson, but published pseudonymously) takes as its main subject the plight of women evacuees during th... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Enduring Adventure (1944) by Norah C. James

  

  Book Review by Sylvia D: Norah C[ordner] James (1896-1979) came from a wealthy Hampstead family and the British Library catalogue lists more than 70 books... Read more

  Posted on 31 March 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Pillar of Cloud (1948) by Francis Stuart

  

  By JV Dominic, an Irishman, finds himself in a small town in the French occupied region of post-war Germany. As a citizen of a neutral country (Eire) his... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Twenty-Four Hours Leave (1943) by Renee Shann (pen Name of Carol Gaye)

  

  By Helen N. This is an American edition (Triangle Books, New York 1944) of a 1943 British novel, which accounts for the cover which has a sketchy picture of a... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Mr Norris Changes Trains (1935) by Christopher Isherwood – a Second Review

  

  By ARP. Isherwood’s story Mr Norris Changes Trains is set in pre-war Berlin between 1935 and 1939. The story is filled with mystery from the beginning due to th... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Mr Norris Changes Trains (1935) by Christopher Isherwood

  

  By PG Mr Norris Changes Trains is a novel by Christopher Isherwood set in the early 1930s during the inter-war period. It’s a highly entertaining romp through... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Something in My Heart (1944) by Walter Greenwood

  

  Walter Greenwood is, of course, famous as the Salford author of the best remembered thirties depression novel, Love on the Dole, a novel which has had... Read more

  Posted on 24 February 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Heat of the Day ( 1948) by Elizabeth Bowen

  

  By LA It is war time in the blazing city of London and the beginning of this novel introduces the protagonist Stella and her two male interests. Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Death of the Heart (1938) by Elizabeth Bowen

  

  By LMC Written by Elizabeth Bowen, The Death of the Heart (written in 1938), is one of her best known novels. The novel focuses on the main protagonist,... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Coming Up for Air (1939) by George Orwell

  

  By JF The author of this novel, George Orwell, most famously known for his satires on society in Animal Farm and 1984, here composes what can be interpreted as... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Stamboul Train (1932) by Graham Greene

  

  By JN The Orient Express, a fascinating machine transporting people from different walks of life across Europe in a web of murder, lies and love. Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Brideshead Revisited (1945) by Evelyn Waugh

  

  By AW Written between December 1943 and June 1944 following a parachuting accident, Evelyn Waugh’s “operation of divine grace on a group of diverse but closely... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Forbidden Zone (1929) by Mary Borden

  

  By JM Mary Borden’s The Forbidden Zone, an accumulative collection of ‘fragments’ as termed by Borden, accrues both prose and poetry in a personal memoir of... Read more

  Posted on 23 February 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Trooper to the Southern Cross (1934) by Angela Thirkell

  

  Book review by George S: Trooper to the Southern Cross is a novel by Angela Thirkell, first published in 1934 under the pseudonym of ‘Leslie Parker’. Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE