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• 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

• They Were Defeated (1932) by Rose Macaulay

  

  Book Review by Mary Grover: They were Defeated was said to be Rose Macaulay’s favorite novel. Published in 1932, this historical novel about intellectual life... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Crewe Train (1926) by Rose Macaulay

  

  Book review by Frances S: ‘We have some very bright evenings. There’s a nice reading circle, too.’‘A what?’ Denham was apprehensive.‘A reading circle. You all... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Madam, Will You Talk? (1955) by Mary Stewart (another Review)

  

  Will you accept of the key of my heart To bind us together and to never never part? Madam, will you walk? Madam, will you talk with me? No, I won’t accept of th... Read more

  Posted on 03 September 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Living Alone (1919) by Stella Benson

  

  Stella Benson Book review by Sophie H: Stella Benson’s 1919 novel Living Alone opens with an eccentric young woman (who is later revealed to have magical powers... Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Flight of the Heron (1925) by D.K. Broster

  

  Book Review by Frances S: The Flight of the Heron is an adventure set in Scotland during the Jacobite rising of 1745-46 when Charles Edward Stuart tried to... Read more

  Posted on 24 August 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• “Mr Rowl” (1924) by D.K. Broster

  

  Cover of the first edition, 1924. Book review by Mary G: Ever since I was a young teenager I have had a horror of the Hulks, decommissioned ships which were use... Read more

  Posted on 22 August 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Ships in the Bay! (1931) by D.K. Broster

  

  Book review by George S. Ships in the Bay! is a historical romance set during the French revolutionary wars. In 1796 there was an abortive French attempt to... Read more

  Posted on 19 August 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Sea Shall Not Have Them (1953) by John Harris

  

  Cartoon by John Harris (click the picture to see it bigger) Book Review By Frances S: Some years ago, browsing in a local charity shop, I bought a framed strip... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Headmistress (1944) by Angela Thirkell

  Book Review by Hilary Temple Anyone who has read Thirkell’s early Barsetshire novels will probably remember with what horrified enthusiasm she throws herself... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Anthony Thorne, I’m a Stranger Here Myself (1943)

  Book Review by Chris Hopkins. Anthony Thorne was a novelist before the war with two successful novels to his name: Delay in the Sun, 1935, and Fruit in Season,... Read more

  Posted on 28 July 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Family Roundabout (1948) by Richmal Crompton

  

  The fabric design featured on the endpapers of the Persephone edition of Family Roundabout. Book Review by Ros W: Richmal Crompton is better known for her... Read more

  Posted on 16 July 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Cruel Sea (1951) by Nicholas Montserrat

  

  Book Review by Mary P: Our theme for the month was naval fiction, and I decided to read The Cruel Sea which when I looked for a copy of the book was said to be ... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Family Roundabout (1948) by Richmal Crompton

  

  Book Review by Kathryn R: This novel was written by the author of the ‘Just William’ stories. It appears that Crompton was the author of around 40 novels for... Read more

  Posted on 06 July 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE