Robert Maxwell celebrated his famous defeat of Private Eye with a commemorative book. PAUL SAFFER enjoys the irony. Continue reading
Category Archives: Culture
Imperial fiction: Golden Age detection 3
ALWYN TURNER reads some detective novels from the 1930s. Continue reading
Revive 45: April 1975
Running foxes, dogs that need loving, gibbons with funk… ALWYN TURNER finds the top 10 from 45 years ago teeming with wildlife. Continue reading
‘A dream-like London’
SIMON MATTHEWS on Tom Stoppard’s 1966 novel Lord Malquist and Mr Moon. Continue reading
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
Revive 45: March 1975
Who was in the charts 45 years ago? wonders ALWYN TURNER. Well, there was Fox, the Rollers, Guys ‘n’ Dolls… Continue reading
Journal of a Plague Year
A killer plague wiping out most of humanity? ALWYN TURNER remembers Terry Nation’s Survivors. Continue reading
Unlovely Jubbly
Keith Waterhouse’s second novel is creepy and sleazy. But is it still comic? wonders SIMON MATTHEWS Continue reading
Revive 45: February 1975
Pilot, the Glitter Band, Johnny Wakelin… It must be the top ten from 45 years ago, concludes ALWYN TURNER 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
Revive 45: January 1975
The Bump, the Quo and ALWYN TURNER’s second favourite guitar solo. Continue reading
