ALWYN TURNER shares some letters from Forum magazine in 1970. Expect honey, steak and vacuum cleaners. Continue reading
Author Archives: Alwyn Turner
George Orwell and the Whirligig of Fame
ALWYN TURNER reviews books on Orwell by Dorian Lynskey and John Rodden – one of them good, the other very, very bad. Continue reading
Looking for a New England
From The Stud to Absolute Beginners, Simon Matthews’s new book rounds up music movies of the 1970s and ’80s. ALWYN TURNER has a read. Continue reading
‘It was everything I feared’
From Morrissey and Bowie to Major and Blair, the Union Jack was everywhere in the 1990s, as ALWYN TURNER remembers. Continue reading
Will you still love me tomorrow?
ALWYN W TURNER explores the fear and loathing in Britain’s response to AIDS. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Goodbye, Mr Chips
The best of all school stories? ALWYN TURNER thinks it might be. Continue reading
Halloween hits: In the Waxworks Late Last Night
A neglected 1930 song by Charlie Higgins, exhumed for Hallowe’en by ALWYN TURNER. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: The Lair of the White Worm
ALWYN TURNER reads Bram Stoker’s second-best-known novel – and finds there’s a steep fall-off after #1. Continue reading
Revive 45: October 1975
Do you remember Papa’s Got a Brand New Bagpipe? ALWYN TURNER does. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Bully, Fag and Hero
ALWYN TURNER on Charles Mansford’s ‘most unpleasant’ school story, published in 1896. Continue reading
Revive 45: September 1975
ALWYN TURNER looks at the charts from 45 years ago and finds Mike Batt, Roger Whittaker and Leo Sayer – but mostly it’s Kenny. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: The Secret of the League
ALWYN TURNER on ‘a fabulous book, sometimes thriller, sometimes satire’ from 1909. Continue reading
