DAN ATKINSON finds sex, plagiarism and libel in a 1959 novel by Winston Graham. Continue reading
Category Archives: Books
Rear-view review: Charlie
Nigel Williams’s 1984 thriller involving trade unions, nationalised car manufacturers, far left politics – it’s a classic of its era, concludes DAN ATKINSON. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Goodbye, Mr Chips
The best of all school stories? ALWYN TURNER thinks it might be. Continue reading
Novelist MPs #2: Woodrow Wyatt
Was Wyatt’s fiction as colourful as his diaries? wonders PAUL SAFFER. 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
Imperial fiction: Bully, Fag and Hero
ALWYN TURNER on Charles Mansford’s ‘most unpleasant’ school story, published in 1896. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: The Secret of the League
ALWYN TURNER on ‘a fabulous book, sometimes thriller, sometimes satire’ from 1909. Continue reading
Novelist MPs #1: Robert Kilroy-Silk
From 1983, it’s Kilroy’s dystopian vision of 2020. ALWYN TURNER has a read. Continue reading
Imperial nonfiction: Boys’ Heroes
ALWYN TURNER reads the books that inspired his granddad. Continue reading
Camden and the North
David Storey’s 1960 novel, Flight Into Camden, revisited by SIMON MATTHEWS. Continue reading
Rear-view review: The Day the Queen Flew to Scotland for the Grouse Shooting
It’s 1968 and England is in a state of civil war. DAN ATKINSON investigates. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Golden Age detection 3
ALWYN TURNER reads some detective novels from the 1930s. Continue reading
