Showing posts with label europe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label europe. Show all posts
Friday, January 27, 2023

The Ambassadors by Henry James

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Soft words butter no parsnips is an English saying that is, let ’ s admit, not overused, especially these days. It probably means get on wit...
Wednesday, October 12, 2022

Europe Since Napoleon by David Thomson

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  Some time ago and in relation to a different book, I wrote a review that in essence began, “Occasionally, just occasionally, one comes acr...
Monday, January 11, 2021

Childe Harold by Lord Byron

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I finished a novel recently. In Eileen McHugh, a life remade, I created a character called Alice, an art teacher close to retirement, as the...
Monday, October 19, 2020

Theodoric the Goth: Barbarian Champion of Civilization by Thomas Hodgkin (1897)

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The fifth and sixth centuries of the Christian era are often listed as part of what we dismissively label as the “Dark Ages”. These times sa...
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...
Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Saxophone Dreams by Nicholas Royle

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Saxophone Dreams by Nicholas Royle is a remarkably ambitious project. It also presents an immense challenge for the reader. At the end of th...
Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Europe revisited, reinterpreted - The Ruby in her Navel by Barry Unsworth

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A Ruby in Her Navel is yet another superb historical novel by Barry Unsworth. By his phenomenal standards, this book might at first appear s...