Review – “The Gospel of Eve” by Rachel Mann
All I wanted to do was re-examine Evie’s book. A palimpsest. Was that the solution to the secret of her …
All I wanted to do was re-examine Evie’s book. A palimpsest. Was that the solution to the secret of her …
This is a guest post by Penelope Wallace, author of the “Ragaris” novels. Penelope and I have been taking about …
I’ve been rereading C.S. Lewis’ The Discarded Image today, sparked by a reread of Michael Ward’s work on planetary symbolism …
I’ve been reading Anthony Trollope’s The Last Chronicle of Barset recently, and enjoying the experience. [Spoiler warning: don’t read this …
This term I am in the enviable position of teaching Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone as part of the …
Midcentury British fiction by women is one of my favourite genres, and I have the overdraft with Persephone Books to …
“This it what it was like. No matter who you were back then, and whoever you ended up as afterwards, …
Anthony Trollope invented the pillar-box, and then regretted it. That’s one of those facts which has been at the back …
World War. A British headquarters. A commander pores over a deskful of papers whilst their second-in-command fusses around them, irritably …
For a little while it was Violet Baudelaire. There were many, many years when it was Lyra Silvertongue. There was …