David Storey’s 1960 novel, Flight Into Camden, revisited by SIMON MATTHEWS. Continue reading
Category Archives: Culture
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
Revive 45: May 1975
Can it be that it was all so simple then? ALWYN TURNER looks at the charts of 45 years ago, and tries to remember. Continue reading
Rockin’ the detectives
From the Adders, Bograt and Caliban’s Claw to Zeno and the Walking Dead, it’s ALWYN TURNER’s guide to rock stars and TV detectives. Continue reading
PS. Maxwell, the Eye & the Informer
PAUL SAFFER adds a footnote to the story of Robert Maxwell suing Private Eye – and finds himself in a parallel universe. Continue reading
The strange case of Robert Maxwell & the Evil Eye
Robert Maxwell celebrated his famous defeat of Private Eye with a commemorative book. PAUL SAFFER enjoys the irony. Continue reading
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
