The Third Eye (1937) by Ethel Lina White

Book Review by George S: The Third Eye is a paranoid novel, a book in which a young woman is caught up in the evil schemes of utterly ruthless enemies, and is put in situations where she does not know what is real and what is imagined. In this respect it is like Ethel Lina … 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 →

The Man in Grey – a Regency Romance (1941), by Eleanor Smith

It’s tosh and I loved it.  Bath gentility, Almack’s assemblies, gauzy frocks, curricles and phaetons, two aristocrats in a marriage of convenience, her lover and his mistress. I can’t help feeling that Georgette Heyer would have arranged matters very differently.  The cynical, bored Marquis of Rohan, the Man in Grey, would have met not the … Continue reading →

The Land of Mist (1926) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Land of Mist picks up some of the characters who discovered an island full of prehistoric creatures in Conan Doyle’s The Lost World, and sets them exploring the even stranger world of ghosts and spirits.