Italian boxer Primo Carnera got namechecked in the 1930s by PG Wodehouse and Sandy Powell. ALWYN TURNER explains why. Continue reading
Tag Archives: PG Wodehouse
Imperial fiction: Bindle
ALWYN TURNER on a home-front comedy from the Great War. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Richard Hannay
ALWYN TURNER celebrates John Buchan’s most famous character. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Jim Maitland
ALWYN TURNER goes back to 1923 to read about Sapper’s other great hero. Continue reading
Imperial fiction: Lower than Vermin
ALWYN TURNER on Dornford Yates (beloved of both Michael Gove and Mark Gatiss) and his 1950 novel of lost England. Continue reading
You’re obsolete, my baby
Inspector Alleyn in the Swinging Sixties? It’s not right, says ALWYN TURNER. Continue reading
F. Anstey and the original Dorian Gray
ALWYN TURNER on the Victorian humourist who inspired Oscar Wilde. Continue reading
‘As hearty as roast beef’: William Haggard
ALWYN TURNER celebrates the work of Cold War thriller writer William Haggard. Continue reading
Obscure Olympians 5: 3rd Earl of Kimberley
PAUL SAFFER on the polo-playing missing link between Bertie Wooster and Winston Churchill. Continue reading
First notices: Part 1
Early newspaper reviews of Dracula, Jeeves, Rebecca, Flashman and others. Continue reading
