Erica

LATEST ARTICLES ( 397 )

• 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

• The White Company (1892) by Arthur Conan Doyle

  

  Book review by George Simmers: In 1891, at the same time that the first Sherlock Holmes short stories were appearing each month in the Strand Magazine, Doyle’s... Read more

  Posted on 15 February 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Great News About Steel City Readers Book!

  

  Dear Reading 1900-1950 readers, Great news from Reading Sheffield: We have reached our fundraising target of £12,500 to support the publication of Mary... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Captain Bulldog Drummond (1946) by Gerard Fairlie

  

  Book Review by George Simmers: In 1937 Herman Cyril McNeile who, as ‘Sapper’ had written the Bulldog Drummond thrillers, died. Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Black Gang (1922) by ‘Sapper’

  

  Book Review by Jane Varley: This is the novel in which Hugh Drummond D.S.O., M.C. demobbed British officer bored with peace – and the reader – first encounter... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Apologies – Missing Events Links!

  Dear All, I realise that the links to New Year book events did not get though on the email version of yesterday’s post! They are though all live on this page... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2023 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Events in the New Year About Books, Readers and Reading!

  Dear Reading 1900-1950 Followers, I know that many of you are based outside the UK or not close to Sheffield, but equally I know others are based within... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Sad Cypress (1940) by Agatha Christie

  

  Come away, come away, death, And in sad cypress let me be laid. Fly away, fly away, breath; I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white, stuck all with... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Taken at the Flood (1948) and After the Funeral (1952) by Agatha Christie

  

  Book review by George S: These two novels were published when Agatha Christie’s was at the peak of her powers, and delivering at least one best-seller every yea... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Razor’s Edge (1944) by Somerset Maugham

  

  Book Review by George S: The Razor’s Edge was written during the Second World War, but its story begins at the end of the First one. In 1919 Larry Darrell is... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Cherry Ames Cruise Nurse (1948) by Julie Tatham

  

  By Val Hewson and Chris Hopkins Cherry Ames, for anyone unfamiliar with her – and I would be interested to hear who does remember her and the career novels... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Now, Voyager (1941), by Olive Higgins Prouty

  

  The classic movie Now, Voyager (1942), starring Bette Davis, is so familiar that I can pretty near play it in my head. Claude Rains as Dr Jaquith tapping his... Read more

  Posted on 31 October 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Shuttle (1907) by Frances Hodgson Burnett

  

  Book review by George Simmers: When my daughter was young I used to read to her regularly, and when she was ten or eleven we both greatly enjoyed the... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE

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

  

  Book Review by George Simmers: The Heat of the Day is a novel set in 1942. The central character is Stella, whose lover, Robert had been wounded at Dunkirk. He... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2022 BOOKS, CULTURE