Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Count Stenbock in the TLS

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It's nice when mainstream reviews like the TLS pay some attention to our small corner of the literary world, and nicer when they sincer...
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Monday, August 26, 2019

Philip Owens - Picture of Somebody?

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In discussing Picture of Nobody , Philip Owens’ fantasy of Shakespeare transposed to the Nineteen Thirties, I explained that I could not fi...
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Sunday, August 25, 2019

The Pale Illuminations

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Sarob Press has just announced The Pale Illuminations , a book of four long stories by Peter Bell, Derek John, Reggie Oliver and Mark Valen...
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Wednesday, August 21, 2019

R I P Richard Booth, The King of Hay

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The local newspaper for Hay-on-Wye, the Brecon & Radnor Express , reports the sad news that Richard Booth, the man who founded the book...
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Monday, August 19, 2019

Picture of Nobody - Philip Owens

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In Picture of Nobody (1936) by Philip Owens, Shakespeare is recreated as an impoverished young poet in Nineteen Thirties London. It is not...
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Tuesday, August 13, 2019

Guest Post: False Memory Syndrome in Arthur Machen’s “The Children of the Pool” by Dale Nelson

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Published by Hutchinson in 1936, “The Children of the Pool” is the title story in Machen’s late six-tale collection.  Vacationing in Wales, ...
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Thursday, August 8, 2019

The Man in the Battered Silk Hat – A Prophet in Bronte Country

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The mid-20th century novels of Howard Spring are I suppose not much read now, but they were once very popular. Perhaps his greatest success...
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Saturday, August 3, 2019

Margaret Enid Griffiths - Early Vaticination in Welsh

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I was pleased to pick this up the other day, a study of medieval Welsh prophecies.  It was a favourite book when I was studying years ago ...
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