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• The Lanchester Tradition (1913) by G.F. Bradby

  

  G.F Bradby in 1905. Book review by George S: This is a book about what happens in a celebrated public school, very set in its ways, when a new headmaster... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Jim Redlake (1930) by Frances Brett Young

  

  First edition cover. Book Review by George S: Jim Redlake is a long novel (787 pages), telling the story of a young man’s journey to adulthood. Read more

  Posted on 19 March 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• City of Gold (1939) by Francis Brett Young

  

  Book Review by Mary Grover: Having, years ago, read one of Young’s Mercian novels I was bamboozled, late at night, by the fact my copy of The City of Gold had... Read more

  Posted on 17 March 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Rock Pool (1934) by Cyril Connolly

  

  Cover of the Obelisk Press edition. Book review by George S: It’s LGBT month at the popular fiction project, which I’ve taken as an excuse to open a book that... Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Maurice (1913-14) by E.M. Forster

  

  Cover of first British edition, Note: Maurice was written 1913-14, revised 1932 and 1959-1960. Published 1971. Review by Mary Grover: One of my favourite... Read more

  Posted on 17 February 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Judgment on Deltchev (1951) by Eric Ambler

  

  Book Review by Sylvia D: Judgment on Deltchev is a political thriller set in a fictitious Balkan state at the time of the East European show trials in the... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Uncommon Danger (1937) by Eric Ambler

  

  First edition cover Book Review by George S: Kenton is a journalist taking a train from Berlin to Vienna. Sachs, a rather dubious stranger, persuades him to... Read more

  Posted on 13 January 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Journey into Fear (1940) – Eric Ambler

  

  The book was filmed in 1943 – produced by Orson Welles, starring Joseph Cotten and Dolores del Rio. In the film, Graham is American and some of the plot has bee... Read more

  Posted on 12 January 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Grey Mask (1929) by Patricia Wentworth – Another Review

  

  How the American public first encountered Grey Mask. Review by Mary Grover (containing spoilers): Reading my first Patricia Wentworth, heralded as a writer... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Bungalow Mystery (1923) by Annie Haynes

  

  Annie Haynes Book Review by Sylvia D: Haynes was born in Leicestershire in 1865. By 1908 she was living in London with the daughter of an eminent orthopaedic... Read more

  Posted on 20 December 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Grey Mask (1929) by Patricia Wentworth

  

  Cover of the first American edition. Book Review by George S: Charles Moray comes back from four years abroad, and is surprised to find that his empty house is... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Founder of the House (1935) by Naomi Jacob

  

  Naomi Jacob Book Review by Frances S: The Founder of House is described as the first volume of Naomi Jacob’s seven-volume Gollantz saga, which seemed a good... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Peter West (1923) and The English Air (1940) by D.E, Stevenson

  

  Book review by Mary G: When I read that D. E. Stevenson came from the same family as Robert Louis Stevenson and wrote romantic novels, I immediately assumed,... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Young Clementina by D.E. Stevenson (another Review)

  

  Book review by Sylvia D.: The Young Clementina was first published in 1935 under the title Divorced from Reality. Neither title seems very apt as the novel is... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Young Clementina (1935) by D.E. Stevenson

  

  Book review by George S: I ordered this book from Kindle as The Young Clementina, partly because its cover picture suggested a light and jolly romp. Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Little Boy Lost (1949) by Marghanita Laski

  

  Book review by Sylvia D: I don’t know where Marghanita Laski sits in the Pantheon of novelists published between 1900 and 1950 but a Persephone Books The Captiv... Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Magnolia Street (1932) by Louis Golding

  

  Book review by George S.: Magnolia Street is rather like two later books, Howard Spring’s Manchester saga, Fame is the Spur, and Walter Greenwood’s Love on the... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Mystery in Geneva (1922) by Rose Macaulay

  

  Cover of first edition (1922) Book Review by Kathryn R: Mystery at Geneva – An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings is a short novel, telling the story of... Read more

  Posted on 28 September 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Crewe Train (1926) by Rose Macaulay (another Review)

  

  Book review by Sylvia D: This novel has the most wonderful dedication: ‘To the Philistines, The Barbarians, The Unsociables and those who do not care to take an... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Potterism (1920) by Rose Macaulay

  

  Book review by George Simmers: In this novel, Rose Macaulay gives her diagnosis of what is wrong with Britain after the end of the First World War. She sums thi... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE