ALWYN TURNER on PC Wren’s 1924 tale of the French Foreign Legion. Continue reading
Category Archives: Books
Imperial fiction: The Four Feathers
ALWYN TURNER on AEW Mason’s classic adventure novel from 1902. Continue reading
Off the shelf: A Legacy of Spies
DAN ATKINSON celebrates the last night of the Circus. Continue reading
Rear-view review: Maggie Muggins
DAN ATKINSON renews his acquaintance with Keith Waterhouse’s great London novel Maggie Muggins. Continue reading
You’re obsolete, my baby
Inspector Alleyn in the Swinging Sixties? It’s not right, says ALWYN TURNER. Continue reading
Off the shelf: ‘Party Animals’
DAN ATKINSON on David Aaronovitch’s memoir of growing up with the CPGB. Continue reading
F. Anstey and the original Dorian Gray
ALWYN TURNER on the Victorian humourist who inspired Oscar Wilde. Continue reading
‘Elephantinely elfish’: Monsieur Hanuad
ALWYN TURNER on A.E.W. Mason’s detective, the inspiration for Hercule Poirot. Continue reading
‘As hearty as roast beef’: William Haggard
ALWYN TURNER celebrates the work of Cold War thriller writer William Haggard. Continue reading
Aberfan: ‘It had fallen…’
Remembering the Aberfan disaster in 1966, an extract from JOHN SUMMERS’s novel The Disaster. Continue reading
The arrest of Oscar Wilde
A contemporary newspaper account of Oscar being seized in 1895. Continue reading
‘Originality without eccentricity’: Barry Pain
ALWYN TURNER celebrates the work of novelist and humorist Barry Pain. Continue reading
