Book review by Hilary Temple. (Published by Hamish Hamilton) Cheerfulness Breaks In might seem an odd title for a novel dealing with the outbreak of WWII. Its origin can be found in any dictionary of quotations: in Boswell’s Life of Johnson Oliver Edwards says ‘I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; … Continue reading
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Walter Greenwood Interview…
This feels a bit egotistical, but Liverpool University Press have posted a short interview with me about WG on their blog. It might be of interest: https://liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/blogs/english-literature/walter-greenwoods-love-on-the-dole-10-minutes-with-chris-Hopkins – Best Chris.
New Walter Greenwood Site
Dear Reading 1900-1950 colleagues, Having posted my review of Greenwood’s memoir There Was a Time (1967) – and thus broken every rule about this blog’s parameters, I realised that perhaps what I should do is to start a new and more specialised Walter Greenwood blog / web-site. This I have now done. I will still (OF … Continue reading
There Was a Time (1967) by Walter Greenwood
Book review by Chris Hopkins. Strictly speaking There Was a Time is a memoir and not a novel and so perhaps should not properly be reviewed here (and moreover it was published in 1967!). However, there are a few precedents on the blog for looking at non-fiction writing by fiction writers, and also some of … Continue reading
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1926) by Anita Loos
Book Review by Chris Hopkins. I had to read Gentlemen Prefer Blondes because I started reading what I suspected was a parody of it, but couldn’t be sure because I had never read the original. So, I’m going to review Gentlemen Prefer Blondes now so that I can in due course review ‘Tackline’ ‘s (much … Continue reading
Georgette Heyer Conference in London, June 19, 2018
This might be of interest – see https://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences/nonesuch-georgette-heyer – Best Chris.
Second review of Joy and Josephine by Monica Dickens (1948)
Book Review by Jane V. The book opens with a kind of prologue. An Irish girl puts her crucifix in the folds of a newborn baby’s blanket and leaves the child in a church porch. Chapter One opens on a train travelling to the West Country soon after WW1. Seated in the carriage are three … Continue reading
The Reckless Lady by Philip Gibbs (Published October 1924 by Hutchinson and Co)
Book Review by Kath R. Philip Gibbs’ Wikipedia entry details his career as a war correspondent during the First World War and his reluctance to censor his reporting of the war. He agreed to the censorship, but after the war wrote The Realities of War. It appears that he was a prolific writer about the … Continue reading
Love on the Dole by Walter Greenwood (1933)
Book review by Chris Hopkins. Having now posted blogs about most of Walter Greenwood’s fiction, I realise that these pretty much all refer back to his first novel, Love on the Dole (1933), so for the sake of completeness and to help the blog reader, I ought to add a blog for that first novel. … Continue reading
The Greater Trumps (1932) by Charles Williams. In memory of Thecla – Reading Group member 2012 to 2016.
Book Review by Chris Hopkins. I remember reading Charles Williams’ novel The Place of the Lion (1931) at school in the 1970s, at the suggestion of my friend Robert Jones (now sadly lost touch with, but who was definitely an intellectual aged eleven onwards). He said that it was a very weird novel and that … Continue reading
