SIMON MATTHEWS on Tom Stoppard’s 1966 novel Lord Malquist and Mr Moon. Continue reading
Category Archives: Books
Imperial fiction: Golden Age detection 2
ALWYN TURNER reads some stories about Lord Peter Wimsey. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Golden Age detection 1
ALWYN TURNER reads some interwar detective novels by Agatha Christie and Margery Allingham. Continue reading
Unlovely Jubbly
Keith Waterhouse’s second novel is creepy and sleazy. But is it still comic? wonders SIMON MATTHEWS Continue reading
Imperial fiction: A Prince of Swindlers
Private detective? Secret identity? Take two cliches into the shower? ALWYN TURNER on Guy Boothby’s character Simon Crane. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
From 1886, it’s the greatest ever horror story, re-read by ALWYN TURNER. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Dr Nikola
ALWYN TURNER encounters Guy Boothby’s evil mastermind from the 1890s. Continue reading
Rear-view review: The Ipcress File
DAN ATKINSON revisits Len Deighton’s first novel from 1962. Continue reading
Rear-view review: Jill
How angry is Philip Larkin’s Oxford novel from 1946, asks DAN ATKINSON. Continue reading
Rear-view review: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
DAN ATKINSON revisits ‘the most brilliant spy novel of our time’. Continue reading
Rear-view review: Life in the West
Melvyn Bragg meets Max Hastings in a 1980 novel, as DAN ATKINSON looks on. Continue reading
Imperial Fiction: The index
ALWYN TURNER’s reviews of books from the late 19th century and the early 20th. Continue reading
