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, […]
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 […]
I read a few critical reviews of this debut novel by Caoilinn Hughes and decided to give it a whirl. Described as “Kick-Ass and Whip-Smart”, “Dazzling, Heady Fiction”, “Urgent, Funny, Painstaking”. In fact the publisher’s own blurb followed with similar hyperbole: “Written in electric, heart-stopping prose, Orchid and The Wasp is a dazzlingly original novel […]
Robert Macfarlane seems to have established himself as a modern mystagogue, encouraging an increasingly urban and urbane society that seems to have become almost hermetically sealed against the manifestations of nature, to wander beyond the confines of the city and engage with the natural world. In his previous books he has espoused the glory of […]
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, […]
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 […]
I read a few critical reviews of this debut novel by Caoilinn Hughes and decided to give it a whirl. Described as “Kick-Ass and Whip-Smart”, “Dazzling, Heady Fiction”, “Urgent, Funny, Painstaking”. In fact the publisher’s own blurb followed with similar hyperbole: “Written in electric, heart-stopping prose, Orchid and The Wasp is a dazzlingly original novel […]
Robert Macfarlane seems to have established himself as a modern mystagogue, encouraging an increasingly urban and urbane society that seems to have become almost hermetically sealed against the manifestations of nature, to wander beyond the confines of the city and engage with the natural world. In his previous books he has espoused the glory of […]
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, […]
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 […]
