Review – “The Gospel of Eve” by Rachel Mann

November 6, 2020

All I wanted to do was re-examine Evie’s book. A palimpsest. Was that the solution to the secret of her …

Imaginary Quads and Overheard Tennis: Ursula Orange and Dorothy L. Sayers

July 3, 2017

I’m on a bit of a mid-century novel binge at the moment, even more than usual, having discovered the “Furrowed …

December 10, 2014

Last weekend we had to wrestle with a textual crux in one of the texts which will be read at …

October 24, 2013

For a little while it was Violet Baudelaire. There were many, many years when it was Lyra Silvertongue. There was …

October 3, 2013

This is a guest post by A.J. Hall, a lawyer, sailor and writer. She can be found on Twitter @legionseagle …

January 12, 2013

I’ve been reading quite a bit of Dorothy L. Sayers recently (and by recently I mean the last fifteen years …

January 11, 2013

This post is one in a set which I’ve been meaning to write for some time, under the tag “commonplace”. …