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2016

George Orwell’s The Road to Wigan Pieroriginal ↗
14 Apr 2016
The 1938 Club! Evelyn Waugh’s Scooporiginal ↗
11 Apr 2016
Dorothy M Richardson’s Backwater, and Honeycomboriginal ↗
8 Apr 2016
Domestic politics in Nancy Mitford’s The Pursuit of Loveoriginal ↗
5 Apr 2016
A history of British utopian living: Utopia Britannicaoriginal ↗
1 Apr 2016
Resisting war: Rose Macaulay’s Non-Combatants and Othersoriginal ↗
29 Mar 2016
The hero uses crutches: J J Amaworo Wilson’s Damnificadosoriginal ↗
24 Mar 2016
Suffragette fiction by Constance Maud: No Surrenderoriginal ↗
21 Mar 2016
Evelyn Waugh’s Remote Peopleoriginal ↗
18 Mar 2016
Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Risingoriginal ↗
16 Mar 2016
Now posting on Vulpes Libris: Ida Cook’s Safe Passageoriginal ↗
14 Mar 2016
Neil Gaiman’s The Sleeper and the Spindleoriginal ↗
10 Mar 2016
Mary Stewart’s The Crystal Caveoriginal ↗
8 Mar 2016
Dorothy Richardson’s Pointed Roofsoriginal ↗
4 Mar 2016
Rosemary Sutcliff’s The Lantern-Bearersoriginal ↗
2 Mar 2016
Naomi and Nicola cause a stiroriginal ↗
29 Feb 2016
Nicola Griffith’s dances with martial art: the Aud Torvingen novelsoriginal ↗
26 Feb 2016
T H White’s The Once and Future Kingoriginal ↗
22 Feb 2016
Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s Tram 83original ↗
18 Feb 2016
Mark Twain’s A Yankee in King Arthur’s Courtoriginal ↗
16 Feb 2016
No tentacles in Squid’s Grief, by D K Mokoriginal ↗
10 Feb 2016
Barbara Kingsolver’s Prodigal Summeroriginal ↗
8 Feb 2016
Frances Hardinge’s The Lie Treeoriginal ↗
5 Feb 2016
Now posting on Vulpes Libris: Ernest Bramah’s Max Carrados storiesoriginal ↗
3 Feb 2016
Don’t fall off the roof: Dorothy Canfield Fisher’s The Home-Makeroriginal ↗
1 Feb 2016
Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giantoriginal ↗
28 Jan 2016
Dogged mid-West endurance: Willa Cather’s The Song of the Larkoriginal ↗
25 Jan 2016
The biography of Tove Jansson: Life, Art, Wordsoriginal ↗
21 Jan 2016
Edith Wharton and The Custom of the Countryoriginal ↗
18 Jan 2016
The performances of Roderick Alleyn: Ngaio Marsh at her bestoriginal ↗
15 Jan 2016
George Orwell the grumpy hard-workeroriginal ↗
13 Jan 2016
Working is good for you: Louisa May Alcott’s An Old-Fashioned Girloriginal ↗
11 Jan 2016
Fast cars and the open road: Reading speed in Dornford Yatesoriginal ↗
8 Jan 2016
The Golden Age of Murderoriginal ↗
6 Jan 2016
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallowsoriginal ↗
4 Jan 2016
A year of blogging about reading and publishingoriginal ↗
1 Jan 2016

2015

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Princeoriginal ↗
30 Dec 2015
1950s county family looks nervously at social change: Jane Hervey’s Vain Shadoworiginal ↗
23 Dec 2015
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenixoriginal ↗
21 Dec 2015
Sleeping Embers of an Ordinary Mindoriginal ↗
18 Dec 2015
The disappearance of women: those BBC ‘best novel’ numbers againoriginal ↗
16 Dec 2015
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fireoriginal ↗
14 Dec 2015
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkabanoriginal ↗
11 Dec 2015
The BBC’s 100 best British novels: unpacking the numbersoriginal ↗
9 Dec 2015
Now posting on Vulpes Libris: Chaldon Herringoriginal ↗
7 Dec 2015
The two biographies of Naomi Mitchisonoriginal ↗
4 Dec 2015
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secretsoriginal ↗
30 Nov 2015
Fear and loathing of terrorism: Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agentoriginal ↗
27 Nov 2015
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stoneoriginal ↗
24 Nov 2015
Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Mercyoriginal ↗
20 Nov 2015
Rampaging in the Pyrenees: Dornford Yates’s Adèle and Co.original ↗
17 Nov 2015
Lindsey Davis, Ancient Rome and Marcus Didius Falcooriginal ↗
13 Nov 2015
Sylvia Townsend Warner and Lolly Willowesoriginal ↗
11 Nov 2015
Now posting on Vulpes Libris: John Carey’s The Intellectuals and the Massesoriginal ↗
9 Nov 2015
Witches in the weeds: Charles Gray’s The Herbal Detectiveoriginal ↗
6 Nov 2015
Breathlessly whirling with Georgette Heyer’s Cotillionoriginal ↗
4 Nov 2015
Laurens Van der Post and A Story Like The Windoriginal ↗
2 Nov 2015
Philip Davies’ Lost Londonoriginal ↗
30 Oct 2015
Patriarchal post-apocalyptic retro: David Brin’s The Postmanoriginal ↗
28 Oct 2015
John Updike and The Witches of Eastwickoriginal ↗
26 Oct 2015
Mike French and Karl Brown: An Android Wakesoriginal ↗
23 Oct 2015
The outbreak of war: Angela Thirkell’s Cheerfulness Breaks Inoriginal ↗
21 Oct 2015
Now posting on Vulpes Libris: Karen Russell’s short storiesoriginal ↗
19 Oct 2015
A homosexual sf future wrestling with political ecology: Naomi Mitchison’s Solution Threeoriginal ↗
16 Oct 2015
Now posting on Vulpes Libris: Ursula Buchan’s A Green and Pleasant Landoriginal ↗
14 Oct 2015
Vern Sneider and The Tea-House of the August Moonoriginal ↗
12 Oct 2015
The joy of genderless space opera: Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Swordoriginal ↗
9 Oct 2015
Eco-dystopian sf curiosity: Naomi Mitchison’s Not By Bread Aloneoriginal ↗
7 Oct 2015
Mary Renault and The Praise-Singeroriginal ↗
5 Oct 2015
Michael Jenkins’s A House in Flandersoriginal ↗
2 Oct 2015
Kate Wilhelm’s Let the Fire Falloriginal ↗
30 Sept 2015
Sir Arthur Quiller Couch and being Qoriginal ↗
28 Sept 2015
You May Well Ask: Naomi Mitchison’s roaring twentiesoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2015
Alex Bledsoe’s Long Black Curloriginal ↗
23 Sept 2015
Barbara Pym’s A Glass of Blessingsoriginal ↗
21 Sept 2015
Framework, unfinished: Terry Pratchett’s The Shepherd’s Crownoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2015
Now Posting on Vulpes Libris: issue two of Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London: Body Workoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2015
Ayisha Malik: Sofia Khan is NOT Obligedoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2015
The magnificent Modesty Blaiseoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2015
Sex in space: Naomi Mitchison’s Memoirs of a Spacewomanoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2015
Hilda Vaughan’s The Soldier and the Gentlewomanoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2015
Adam Nicolson’s Sea-Roomoriginal ↗
7 Sept 2015
Tell Me What You Read: Christopher Williamsoriginal ↗
28 Aug 2015
Karel Čapek’s War With the Newtsoriginal ↗
26 Aug 2015
A G Macdonell and England, Their Englandoriginal ↗
24 Aug 2015
Interview with Laila Lalami, author of The Moor’s Accountoriginal ↗
21 Aug 2015
Vita Sackville-West’s No Signposts in the Seaoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2015
Merlin versus the vivisectionists, in C S Lewis’s That Hideous Strengthoriginal ↗
17 Aug 2015
My very own book: Novelists Against Social Changeoriginal ↗
14 Aug 2015
Now Posting on Vulpes Libris: Nan Shepherd’s The Quarry Woodoriginal ↗
14 Aug 2015
Kate Wilhelm’s Where Late The Sweet Birds Sangoriginal ↗
12 Aug 2015
Rudyard Kipling and Captains Courageous original ↗
10 Aug 2015
Tell Me What You Read: Ahmed al-Rawioriginal ↗
7 Aug 2015
Tove Jansson and the Moominsoriginal ↗
5 Aug 2015
Now posting on Vulpes Libris: Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Accountoriginal ↗
3 Aug 2015
Tell Me What You Read: Donna-Jo Napolioriginal ↗
31 Jul 2015
Now Posting on Vulpes Libris: David Mitchell’s The Bone Clocksoriginal ↗
29 Jul 2015
Read the novel before you judge it: Harper Lee’s Go Set A Watchmanoriginal ↗
27 Jul 2015
Tell Me What You Read: David McKay and literary translationoriginal ↗
24 Jul 2015
Unpicking a life of glamour: Molly Izzard’s Freya Starkoriginal ↗
22 Jul 2015
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