Sunday, December 16, 2007

A social climber, our Joe - A review of A Room At The Top by John Braine

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It’s fifty years since A Room At The Top first appeared. Against a backdrop of post-war Britain, a period when people really did believe tha...
Monday, December 10, 2007

A review of Unless by Carol Shields

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Unless by Carol Shields has been my third novel in a row written from the perspective of a self-analytical, self-critical and perhaps self-o...

Costa Blanca Arts Update - Interpretation perfected by presentation – the Berlin Mendelssohn Trio in Palau Altea, Altea, Spain

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One of the great, even reassuring, things about what the CD shops ignorantly label “Classical Music” is its freedom, its liberality, its dem...
Friday, December 7, 2007

A review of The Gathering by Anne Enright

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Anne Enright’s The Gathering deserves every ounce of praise it has received, and perhaps a bit more. It’s a family history of the Hegartys, ...
Tuesday, December 4, 2007

A review of A S Byatt’s A Whistling Woman

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A S Byatt’s A Whistling Woman is a strange book. At one level it’s a straightforward account of university life, with its politics, affairs ...
Monday, December 3, 2007

A note on A Bucket of Ashes, a romantic novel by Jill Lanchbery

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A Bucket of Ashes, a romantic novel set in Britain and Nigeria, by Jill Lanchbery is publised by Libros International. At the heart of A Buc...

A note on God Works For Me Now by Jacqueline Blakeway

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God Works For Me Now by Jacqueline Blakeway is published by Libros International. It’s a book that describes a marriage breakdown and the sp...