The Silence of the Girls
A writer who takes on The Iliad – the foundational work of Western literature has to be either very foolish …
Category Archives: Books
In the zone
Change and decay
The film of The Little Stranger has just hit the cinemas. This is my original review of the book. The Little …
The Wretched
Just finished reading The Wretched –better known to its friends as Les Miserables. Gosh it’s a long book. I started …
One in, one out
It was one of those “one thing leads to another” email conversations which lead to the discovery of a new, …
Just deserts
What would your Desert Island Discs choices be? It’s one of those things that’s in the culture – the sort of thing …
Imaginary forces
Kenneth Branagh’s Henry V (1989) was a thoughtful and welcome Christmas present from G (my filmic friend). The plan was to view …
To Walk Invisible
To Walk Invisible was one of the BBC’s better Christmas 2016 offerings. There’s a particular challenge in reworking a familiar …
The complete works
It was a simple enough plan. Your correspondent, a Shakespeare neophyte, would go to the launch of the new Oxford …
Very East Oxford
Oxford author Martin Pevsner writes about the real Oxford – or perhaps I should say, an Oxford that I …
After Work 