Archive for the ‘Delicious links’ Category
Saturday, February 21st, 2009
Posted in Delicious links | Comments Off
Sunday, January 11th, 2009
Posted in Delicious links | Comments Off
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
-
Altogether now: Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzah! And it could not have been handed to a more deserving person. Arise, His Grace the Duke of Ankh His Excellency Commander Sir Terence Pratchett… hang on, that's not right…
Posted in Delicious links | Comments Off
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
-
Bit of a redundant question, really, since the man they interview is a highly successful romance author. An excellent interview with a "gruff former rugby player Yorkshireman writing under the pseudonym Gill…"
Posted in Delicious links | Comments Off
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
-
Is the American publishing industry in meltdown? And what does this mean for readers and writers over the next few years?
-
Max Hastings salutes one of the greatest writers in English: "Jeeves provides a sheet anchor of sanity around which the rest of a cast of imbeciles can be made to dance, just as soldiers are taught always to manoeuvre their troops around a fixed point… I read my eight or nine favourites on an annual cycle, turning to them when nothing else can re-vive flagging spirits, and when if not actually disgruntled I am far from being gruntled."
-
Intense and scholarly review of a new book about this most-discussed of Roman cities by the eminent classicist and academic Mary Beard.
-
Review of a new novel by Jean-Pierre Ohl with a Dickensian theme – intriguingly referred to as "an intertextual box of tricks". A step up for Jasper Fforde readers?
-
An engaging review of a new book by Michael Holroyd exploring the dramatic lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irvine and their descendants – a clan that includes Edward Gordon Craig and Sir John Gielgud. A must-read for all interested in the theatre.
Posted in Delicious links | Comments Off
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
-
An encyclopaedia of London is a seductive idea and surely there's enough material for a series. But does this, it's latest incarnation, come together? And what are its pleasures, real rather than imagined? This review examines this question.
Posted in Delicious links | Comments Off