“like a female spaniel that thinks it’s going to get whipped”: Dorothy L. Sayers, Caroline Spurgeon and Shakespeare
Well, I was rather fond of Komski. And I did almost promise to live with him, till I found that …
Well, I was rather fond of Komski. And I did almost promise to live with him, till I found that …
After a silence of several minutes, he came towards her in an agitated manner, and thus began: “In vain I …
The second instalment of the new BBC Mapp and Lucia lived up completely to the promise of the first, and …
The BBC has put Mapp and Lucia on our screens. This is a major epoch. E.F. Benson’s novels about the …
Jane Austen is not really the name of an author these days. The extraordinary popularity of her works over the …
Catherine Fox was educated at Durham and London Universities and has a degree in English and a PhD in Theology. …
Acts and Omissions is the first in a new series of novels by Catherine Fox, detailing the lives of the …
Angels and Men by Catherine Fox is set in a Durham college, apparently around the late 1970s and early 80s. …
There’s always practical problem with assessing John Le Carré’s latest novels, since many of those who buy and read them …
Charlotte Wolfe is the last modernist in Manhattan. An interior “desecrator” who despises the bored super-rich housewives who can afford …