Category: Literature

Gladstone, in his lifetime at any rate, was called The Grand Old Man.

Airport paperback thrillers are very long these days. You’d best take a flight to Sydney.

Have just read another cracker by Norman Lewis.

In 1914, HH Munro, better known by his pen name Saki, published a collection of short stories, Beasts and Super-Beasts. The title parodies Man and Superman by GBS. Some of the stories are well known but you may not have read, or have forgotten, The Unkindest Blow.

Five years ago I wrote a post about an early novel by John le Carré: A Murder Of Quality.