Showing posts with label book review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book review. Show all posts
Sunday, September 29, 2024

Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

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This is a masterpiece of story-telling. It is short - about 130 pages - and tells the tale of a man living an isolated life in New England. ...

Dialogues and Natural History of Religion by David Hume

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These extracts from the writings of David Hume concentrate on his views on religious belief. The Dialogues are clearly inspired by the writi...

The Children Act by Ian McEwan

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  Ian McEwan’s novel The Children Act is probably as close to the label masterpiece as any piece of fiction might get. Having just read Davi...
Monday, September 16, 2024

The Stories of Eva Luna by Isabel Allende

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  In The Stories of Eva Luna, Isabel Allende presents a collection of stories ostensibly told by Ralph Carlé’s partner. Ralph is a televisio...

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I usually don ’ t start book reviews with a warning, but this time I have to break the habit of a lifetime and issue one. If you are a Chris...
Tuesday, August 27, 2024

Aaron’s Rod by D H Lawrence

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Aaron’s Rod by DH Lawrence is a perplexing novel. It seems to represent two quite different aspects of the writer’s creativity. One side has...
Tuesday, April 4, 2023

Normal People by Sally Rooney

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Sally Rooney’s Normal People is a hugely successful and very widely read novel about millennials. It concentrates on the relationships that ...
Friday, February 17, 2023

Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stewart

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Douglas Stewart won the Booker Prize for Fiction with Shuggie Bain, an autobiographical novel about a child coping with an alcoholic parent....
Wednesday, February 15, 2023

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte

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Anne Bront ë’ s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a much-reviewed and well-known classic novel. So can a novel that is a hundred and fifty yea...

Snow by John Banville

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John Banville’s Snow was resplendent at number one best seller in the airport bookstore. At the time, I hardly noticed, since I was immediat...
Friday, February 3, 2023

Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse

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  Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse provided the latest foray into the world and mores of the late fifties. It’s yet another novel that resides...

Saturday Night And Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe

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“Once a rebel, always a rebel. You can ’ t help being one. You can ’ t deny that. And it ’ s best to be a rebel so as to show ‘em it don ’ t...

Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan

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  Half Blood Blues is a novel by Esi Edugyan. It deals with territory that is rarely successful for the writer, that of music and musicians....
Saturday, January 28, 2023

Billy Budd by Herman Melville

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Billy Budd is doubly famous. He is the eponymous principal character of Herman Melville’s novella and, by adoption via E M Forster’s hand, a...