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The Iliad and The Odyssey stand at the fountainhead of Western literature. They are generally held to be the oldest surviving works, and were originally composed in the oral tradition. Indeed, such is their antiquity that they have fostered their own legends, with both poems being ascribed to the blind minstrel Homer. As a consequence, […]
Bauhaus from a people’s perspective I’ll never get to read all the books I know about already let alone those I’ve yet to discover – but it’s well worth a try when you get hold of a book like The Hiding Game. With my focus on building and developing Life: Full Colour, I’m naturally drawn […]
This is what it means to be alive. Circe: “Are you not frightened?” Telemachus: “You warned me it was not safe,” he said. “I do not think being frightened will help.” Circe is a whirlwind of a story involving the great heroes, gods and villains of Greek mythology. It’s over thirty years since I was […]
REVIEW BY IAN JAMES BRYDON Like her previous book, Bluebird, Bluebird¸ this novel is set in East Texas and features Texas Ranger, Darren Matthews. Until I read the previous book, I hadn’t been aware that the Texas Rangers still existed, and had assumed that they had passed into legend during the period of the wild […]
Black humour on a catastrophic scale. I’ve been reading Don Delillo’s book White Noise and have such a vivid view of the characters involved. Especially the lead, Jack Gladney – I’d cast Jeff Goldblum in a film version. In fact, daily life in this family home transports me back to the heart of my US […]
I found re-reading this book as delightful and engaging as it was on my first encounter with it. Sarah Bakewell writes with a charming lightness of touch, and has the happy knack of conveying interesting and often complex ideas with a charming simplicity and clarity. Her book is, essentially, a potted history of existentialist thought […]
I was given a copy of this novel more than thirty years ago, not long after it was published, but, with what might, sadly, have been characteristic ingratitude at that time, I had stowed it away on a bookshelf somewhere, unread and largely forgotten. Looking back, I am not sure what had put me off […]
Peter Lovesey is one of Britain’s most prolific and successful crime writers, having produced more than fifty novels and collections of short stories. Wobble to Death, published in 1970, was his first novel and introduced his enigmatic Sergeant Cribb, or Cribb of the Detective, as he is called by one of the characters. Set in […]
This is another delightful instalment from the chronicles of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves. I won’t even attempt to summarise the plot. For one thing, it is, as always with P. G. Wodehouse’s stories, incredibly complicated (although he always manages to resolve all the various threads), but also because when deconstructed it would simply sound very […]
