Showing posts with label london. Show all posts
Showing posts with label london. Show all posts
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...
Wednesday, January 27, 2021

The Umbrella Men by Keith Carter

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In The Umbrella Men, Keith Carter directs various characters in a plot to act out the financial crisis of 2008. The author specifically want...
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...
Monday, August 24, 2020

Self-promotion or self-demotion? An emotional observation.

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I read qu ite a lot. I also try to review each book I read. Sometimes it’s a cursory mention of themes, settings and plot, just enough just ...
Monday, July 6, 2020

Why did I write Eileen McHugh, a life remade?

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I wanted to explore several strands, the first and most important being the interrelationship between popular and populist, understanding t...
Thursday, July 19, 2012

Thames: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd

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Thames: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd purports to offer a sister volume to the highly successful London: The Biography. To a point it succe...
Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Families in Conflict - Brixton Beach by Roma Tearne

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Brixton Beach by Roma Tearne presents a vast project. Its story crosses the globe, beginning in Sri Lanka and ending in Britain. Great event...
Thursday, November 3, 2011

Beyond the Schoolboy Fringe - Untold Stories by Alan Bennett

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Untold Stories by Alan Bennett is something of a pot pourri. It starts with an autobiographical exploration of social and family origins, an...
Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Kansas In August by Patrick Gale

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Patrick Gale´s novel Kansas In August was an interesting, if never a very engaging read. It features some rather strange people. There is a ...
Monday, July 26, 2010

Dan Leno And The Limehouse Golem by Peter Ackroyd

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Dan Leno And The Limehouse Golem is quite simply a masterpiece. Every aspect of the novel is remarkable. It’s a whodunit, though it suggests...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010

The Road Home by Rose Tremain

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I approached Rose Tremain’s The Road Home expecting a vivid story drawn on a life of struggle, whose central character might grapple with li...

City Of Spades by Colin MacInnes

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Colin MacInnes wrote City Of Spades over fifty years ago. At the time its depiction of London from an African immigrant’s point of view both...
Monday, September 14, 2009

Piano recital by Elena Lasco, classical artist meets jazz virtuoso

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During a recital some years ago, a pianist introduced a Chopin Impromptu by describing its improvisatory essence, likening it to a snapshot ...
Monday, May 4, 2009

The Line Of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst

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It can be no coincidence that Nick, the Oxford graduate who comes to stay, has the surname Guest. The Feddes invite him into their London ho...
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Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Brick Lane by Monica Ali

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A review should always try to address its subject in its own terms. The purpose, after all, is many-sided, to summarise, paraphrase, context...
Monday, September 1, 2008

Please Sir, There’s A Snake In The Art Room by Keith Geddes

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In Please Sir, There’s A Snake In The Art Room author Keith Geddes has his principal character, Tom Thorne, address a series of challenges. ...
Wednesday, July 9, 2008

The End Of The Affair by Graham Greene

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Anyone who has lived in London could place the Common that forms a geographical centrepiece in The End Of The Affair by Graham Greene. It do...
Friday, April 4, 2008

Protesters - a short story

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A shar p closing of the door left the two men together yet alone, strangers, introduced merely seconds before. The older, taller of the two...