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• The Trelooe Trilogy by Walter Greenwood [So Brief the Spring (1952), What...

  

  Book review posted by Chris Hopkins (the review is slightly longer than usual – it seemed best to review the whole trilogy in one post). Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Secret Kingdom (1938) by Walter Greenwood

  

  Book review by Chris Hopkins. Walter Greenwood’s father was a hairdresser and by the time he married Elizabeth Matilda Walter he had opened his own hairdresser’... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• His Worship the Mayor (1935) by Walter Greenwood

  

  Book review posted by Chris Hopkins. In 1934, after the success of his first novel, Love on the Dole, was becoming apparent, Greenwood stood (for the second... Read more

  Posted on 22 December 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Walter Greenwood, Standing Room Only (1936)

  

  Book Review posted by Chris Hopkins. Walter Greenwood is best remembered (indeed often only remembered) for his first novel, Love on the Dole (1933). Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Bird in the Tree (1940) by Elizabeth Goudge

  

  Book Review by George S: This is the first volume of a trilogy about the Eliot family, set in the autumn of 1938, just a few years before the book was... Read more

  Posted on 18 December 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• One Pair of Feet (1942) by Monica Dickens

  

  Book Review by George S: One Pair of Feet is Monica Dickens’ 1942 fictionalised memoir of her time as a hospital nurse during the early years of the second worl... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Joy and Josephine (1948) by Monica Dickens

  

  Book review by Sylvia D: What a shock it must be suddenly to discover in your teens that the people you thought were your parents are only your adoptive parents. Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2017 BOOKS, CULTURE

• 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