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2015

British magic: Ben Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London: Body Workoriginal ↗
20 Jul 2015
Tell Me What You Read: Susan Vollenweideroriginal ↗
17 Jul 2015
Jules Verne meets Conan Doyle with aliens: Philip José Farmer’s The Other Log of Phileas Foggoriginal ↗
15 Jul 2015
A life in books: Helene Hanff’s 84 Charing Cross Roadoriginal ↗
13 Jul 2015
Tell Me What You Read: Martin Fowleroriginal ↗
10 Jul 2015
The glory of unmarried freedom in Paris, in Elaine Dundy’s The Dud Avocadooriginal ↗
8 Jul 2015
The scandal of drinking tea in John Galt’s Annals of the Parishoriginal ↗
6 Jul 2015
E R Punshon’s Crossword Mysteryoriginal ↗
2 Jul 2015
Tell Me What You Read: Wendy Bryantoriginal ↗
29 Jun 2015
1960s fetish magazines and ‘deviant’ porn: Gillian Freeman’s The Undergrowth of Literatureoriginal ↗
24 Jun 2015
Tell Me What You Read: Kenny Farquharsonoriginal ↗
22 Jun 2015
Sybille Bedford, A Favourite of the Godsoriginal ↗
19 Jun 2015
Now posting on Vulpes Libris: Jenny Erpenbeck, The End of Daysoriginal ↗
19 Jun 2015
Death on the walls at the Waterloo Panoramaoriginal ↗
17 Jun 2015
Watching the English with Kate Fox, an umbrella and a giant bananaoriginal ↗
15 Jun 2015
Save us from historical fiction done badlyoriginal ↗
12 Jun 2015
Now posting on Vulpes Libris: the drinking in Hemingwayoriginal ↗
10 Jun 2015
Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolateoriginal ↗
8 Jun 2015
Monica Dickens, One Pair of Feetoriginal ↗
5 Jun 2015
Now posting on Vulpes Libris: North Korean magical realismoriginal ↗
3 Jun 2015
Mad Max: Imperator Furiosaoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2015
Erskine Childers’ The Riddle of the Sandsoriginal ↗
29 May 2015
Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell revisitedoriginal ↗
27 May 2015
The stratagems of aristocratic survival, in Colette’s Julie de Carneilhanoriginal ↗
25 May 2015
The loucheness of the conservative novelist: Angela Thirkell writes about camporiginal ↗
22 May 2015
Policing the supernatural, with Ben Aaronovitch’s Peter Grant seriesoriginal ↗
20 May 2015
The glory days of Edward Leithen: John Macnab and The Gap in the Curtainoriginal ↗
18 May 2015
Vintage knitting with Paton’s and Baldwins’ Woolcraftoriginal ↗
15 May 2015
Margery Allingham’s The Beckoning Ladyoriginal ↗
13 May 2015
Now posting on Vulpes Libris: Jim Carruth’s Killochriesoriginal ↗
11 May 2015
The silence of the persecutors in Dorothy Edwards’ Rhapsodyoriginal ↗
8 May 2015
The unimportance of sex in D K Mok’s Hunt for Valamonoriginal ↗
6 May 2015
The horrible stepmother in The Optimist’s Daughter, by Eudora Weltyoriginal ↗
4 May 2015
The Golden Age detective novels of Ianthe Jerroldoriginal ↗
1 May 2015
Road-testing Palgrave Pivotoriginal ↗
29 Apr 2015
The froideur before the storm, in Storm Jameson’s Hidden Riveroriginal ↗
27 Apr 2015
Now posting on Vulpes Libris: An interview with the Book View Caféoriginal ↗
24 Apr 2015
Sex, death and love (in that order) in James Tiptree Jr’s Her Smoke Rose Up Foreveroriginal ↗
22 Apr 2015
Terror of the tyrannical wife, in Dornford Yates’s This Publicanoriginal ↗
20 Apr 2015
On recording for the BBCoriginal ↗
17 Apr 2015
Magnificently diabolical sexual politics in Jane Austen’s Lady Susanoriginal ↗
15 Apr 2015
Now posting on Vulpes Libris: the Alternative Publishing thrortnightoriginal ↗
13 Apr 2015
Get your time machine fixed here, in Charles Yu’s How To Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universeoriginal ↗
10 Apr 2015
Whose book is this anyway? Transitions in Middlebrow Writing, 1880-1930original ↗
8 Apr 2015
Outrageous bullying for the good of the family in G B Stern’s The Matriarchoriginal ↗
6 Apr 2015
George Eliot with the gloves off: Patricia Duncker’s Sophie and the Sibyloriginal ↗
3 Apr 2015
Noblesse Oblige 2: What Are U?original ↗
1 Apr 2015
John Wyndham’s Trouble with Lichenoriginal ↗
30 Mar 2015
In praise of H P Lovecraft’s The Case of Charles Dexter Wardoriginal ↗
27 Mar 2015
The wild romantic haybags of Sarah Maine’s Bhalla Strandoriginal ↗
25 Mar 2015
Gender-neutral military service in Elizabeth Moon’s Once a Herooriginal ↗
23 Mar 2015
Why studying middlebrow mattersoriginal ↗
20 Mar 2015
The language of the invaded in Paul Kingsnorth’s The Wakeoriginal ↗
18 Mar 2015
Depth and richness in Nicola Griffith’s Ammoniteoriginal ↗
16 Mar 2015
Reading Terry Pratchett: a beginner’s guideoriginal ↗
13 Mar 2015
Gender and body difference in Vonda N McIntyre’s The Exile Waitingoriginal ↗
11 Mar 2015
Snake healing in Vonda N McIntyre’s Dreamsnakeoriginal ↗
9 Mar 2015
‘The Plaint of the Middlebrow Novelist’original ↗
6 Mar 2015
Hooting at What We Do In The Shadowsoriginal ↗
4 Mar 2015
Flying with the brain ships in Anne McCaffrey’s The Ship Who Sangoriginal ↗
2 Mar 2015
A post about Quaker fictionoriginal ↗
27 Feb 2015
James Blish: A feminist gets angryoriginal ↗
25 Feb 2015
Running through the south of France with John Welcome and Run for Cover (1958)original ↗
23 Feb 2015
Following the Internet underwater in Nicole Starosielski’s The Undersea Networkoriginal ↗
20 Feb 2015
now posting on Vulpes Libris: not one, but two biographies of Storm Jamesonoriginal ↗
18 Feb 2015
Was James Bond a gentleman?original ↗
16 Feb 2015
Male scientists save the world in Fred Hoyle’s The Black Cloud (1957)original ↗
12 Feb 2015
In the mud with Geoffrey Household’s Rogue Maleoriginal ↗
10 Feb 2015
Splendiferous music by Árstíðiroriginal ↗
8 Feb 2015
Alistair Cooke’s Letters From America: 1946-1951original ↗
6 Feb 2015
grim stories in Fishermen’s Talesoriginal ↗
4 Feb 2015
Dornford Yates’s Gale Warningoriginal ↗
2 Feb 2015
Don’t take Michael Palin to bed, he’ll keep you up all nightoriginal ↗
30 Jan 2015
now posting on Vulpes Libris: Zulmira Ribeiro Tavares’ Family Heirloomsoriginal ↗
29 Jan 2015
now posting on Vulpes Libris: Noi Don Magnificooriginal ↗
29 Jan 2015
John Buchan’s The Three Hostagesoriginal ↗
26 Jan 2015
the great Brontë slapdownoriginal ↗
23 Jan 2015
On indexing a reading diaryoriginal ↗
21 Jan 2015
early warning: Brontë slapdown coming this Fridayoriginal ↗
19 Jan 2015
Peter O’Donnell’s Modesty Blaiseoriginal ↗
16 Jan 2015
Noel Langley’s There’s A Porpoise Close Behind Usoriginal ↗
14 Jan 2015
Rachel Ferguson’s Celebrated Sequelsoriginal ↗
12 Jan 2015
National Gallery: the film of the art history lectureoriginal ↗
10 Jan 2015
Rose Macaulay’s Potterismoriginal ↗
8 Jan 2015
Mrs Ames: not Luciaoriginal ↗
5 Jan 2015
What Katy Did, Next, and At Schooloriginal ↗
1 Jan 2015

2014

The Importance of Being Earnest: the operaoriginal ↗
31 Dec 2014
Not so much the books I bought, but WHYoriginal ↗
26 Dec 2014
Coroner’s Pidginoriginal ↗
26 Dec 2014
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