Showing posts with label british. Show all posts
Showing posts with label british. Show all posts
Monday, July 18, 2022

Anglo Saxon Attitudes by Angus Wilson

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  This particular reviewer rarely writes a negative review. If it didn’t communicate with me, there ’ s no need to assume that it will not c...
Monday, March 28, 2022

G. F. Watts by G. K. Chesterton

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GK meets GF sounds like the title of one of those mid-twentieth century albums when a producer with an eye for a buck teamed up some ancient...
Wednesday, May 26, 2021

Tribes by David Lammy

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  Tribes by David Lammy promises much, delivers something, but ultimately fails to convince. Its problem lies in the very nature of its visi...
Wednesday, May 19, 2021

Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman

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Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman is a deeply disturbing book. This scenario that unfolds around the life of its principal character and narr...
Tuesday, January 19, 2021

A Postillion Struck by Lightning by Dirk Bogarde

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A Postillion Struck by Lightning is the first part of Dirk Bogarde’s seven volume autobiography. First published as long ago as 1977, it has...
Sunday, January 3, 2021

Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman

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Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman is a deeply disturbing book. This scenario that unfolds around the life of its principal character and narr...
Tuesday, December 15, 2020

The Anarchy by William Dalrymple

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Occasionally, quite rarely, in fact, one reads a book so powerful that it is impossible to review, at least until the dust its disturbance h...
Monday, September 7, 2020

All Too Human - Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life edited by Elena Crippa

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All Too Human - Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life edited by Elena Crippa is a catalogue for a 2018 exhibition in London’s Tate Gal...
Friday, August 21, 2020

Scott-King's Modern Europe by Evelyn Waugh

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Scott-King's Modern Europe is a short, perhaps over-short novella by Evelyn Waugh. Written in 1946, it visits a fictitious part of Europ...
Wednesday, February 15, 2012

The Jewel In The Crown by Paul Scott

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Paul Scott’s The Jewel In The Crown is the first of his tetralogy of novels on British India. These really were the last days of the Raj. An...
Saturday, July 14, 2007

A review of Arthur and George by Julian Barnes

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George Edalji (that’s Ay-dal-ji, by the way, since Parsee names are always stressed on the first syllable) is the son of a Staffordshire vic...