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Month: January 2020

January 30, 2020

Of Cats and Elfins by Sylvia Townsend Warner

Reviewed by Harriet Just over a year ago I reviewed the newly published Handheld Press edition of Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Kingdoms of Elfin, a…

January 30, 2020

Crime Fiction: A Reader’s Guide, by Barry Forshaw

Review by Basil Ransome-Davies When I started teaching popular fiction courses forty years ago, having always been more drawn to Jesse James than to…

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January 28, 2020

Art Essentials: Impressionism by Ralph Skea

Review by Liz Dexter Another volume in the excellently done Art Essentials series, this volume on Impressionism is written by Ralph Skea, an artist…

January 28, 2020

So Brightly at the Last by Ian Shircore

Review by Rob Spence In one important respect, this book was outdated at the moment it was published: its subject, Clive James, having endured…

January 23, 2020

Why Women Read Fiction by Helen Taylor

Review by Gill Davies Women read a lot more fiction than men; they also buy more books, attend writers’ events, blog, exchange ideas, and…

Stanslaw Lem Tales of Pirx the Pilot Louis Iribarne Penguin
January 23, 2020

Tales of Pirx the Pilot by Stanislaw Lem

Translated by Louis Iribarne Review by Karen Langley Polish writer Stanislaw Lem was a prolific author of science fiction works, the most well known…

American Dirt Jeanine Cummins Tinder
January 21, 2020

American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins

Review by Anna Hollingsworth Let’s face it: anything involving human tragedies, poverty, despair, abuse and crime offers a wealth of material for a novelist…

January 21, 2020

Happy Ever After by C. C. MacDonald

Review by Basil Ransome-Davies Adultery. It crops up everywhere. Few grown-up pastimes are as popular as disobeying the sixth Commandment. Where would novels, plays…

timefulness Marcia Bjornerud
January 21, 2020

Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World by Marcia Bjornerud

Review by Peter Reason I have on my desk three pieces of rock, collected during my ecological pilgrimage on in the west coast of…

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