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Category Archives: Books

The Silence of the Girls

Sat, Nov 2020

A writer who takes on The Iliad – the foundational work of Western literature has to be either very foolish …

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In the zone

Mon, Jul 2020

Change and decay

Mon, Sep 2018

The film of The Little Stranger has just hit the cinemas. This is my original review of the book.  The Little …

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The Wretched

Mon, Jun 2018

Just finished reading The Wretched –better known to its friends as Les Miserables.  Gosh it’s a long book. I started …

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One in, one out

Wed, Aug 2017

It was one of those “one thing leads to another” email conversations which lead to the discovery of a new, …

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Just deserts

Wed, Jun 2017

What would your Desert Island Discs choices be? It’s one of those things that’s in the culture – the sort of thing …

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Imaginary forces

Sat, Apr 2017

Kenneth Branagh’s Henry V  (1989) was a thoughtful and welcome Christmas present from G (my filmic friend). The plan was to view …

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To Walk Invisible

Thu, Jan 2017

To Walk Invisible  was one of the BBC’s better Christmas 2016 offerings. There’s a particular challenge in reworking a familiar …

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The complete works

Sun, Dec 2016

It was a simple enough plan. Your correspondent, a Shakespeare neophyte, would go to the launch of the new Oxford …

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Very East Oxford

Fri, Oct 2016

    Oxford author Martin Pevsner writes about the real Oxford – or perhaps I should say, an Oxford that I …

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