Category: Literature

John Bayley, Charlton Heston and William Waldegrave have something in common. They are all contributors to Patrick O’Brian – Critical Appreciations and a Bibliography. That gives a hint about the range of PO’Bs readers. The Hundred Days (1998), is the penultimate novel in the Aubrey/Maturin series. Here is how it opens.

Francis Haskell was at Eton in WW II.

Anthony Price has been a great find. I had never heard of him because he has slipped out of fashion like so many writers of his generation in his genre.

When the first of these things happened, that is to say upon the twentieth day of April, 192-, I was twenty-two years old, a little stronger than most men of my age, and very ready for anything that bade fair to prove more exciting than entering the office of my uncle, who was a merchant… Continue reading Blind Corner

I suppose everyone knows this but I didn’t.

I have read a few Maigret books a long time ago. There were none on my shelves until I bought this one.