Book review: The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien
This book—or to be more precise, this trilogy—is number two in Angus and Robertson’s top one hundred, having been cheated out of the top spot by that appalling Da Vinci Code business. And, while I...
View ArticleBook review: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
If this was a sofa, it would be a pleasant-looking but dated design with ebony framework hand-carved with a slightly intimidating attention to detail. You wouldn’t put it in your lounge room in front...
View ArticleBook review: A Study In Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Study In Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was originally published in 1887, and it's still around, reprinted as recently as 2004. Sherlock Holmes sure has stood the test of time, and A Study In...
View ArticleBook review: Anne Of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne Of Green Gables may well be falling by the wayside these days, being bypassed for more current reading materials for young girls. When I was about ten, I loved everything Anne Of Green Gables, but...
View ArticleBook review: The Sign Of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The second of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes novellas, The Sign Of Four (originally published in 1890), is less with the long-winded-Sherlock-Holmes-single-minded-genius and more with the...
View ArticleBook review: Alice In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
I very much doubt that when Lewis Carroll (aka the reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) rowed down the Thames with the Liddle girls in 1865 and happened to make up a story about Alice to keep them...
View ArticleBook review: Tom Jones by Henry Fielding
So you know those old penguin paperbacks? Y’know, the doorstopper-like novels of the Austens of the nineteenth century world? The Brontes with their page on page of women in bourdoirs waiting for...
View ArticleBook review: Poe: Illustrated Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allen...
This volume brings together thirteen of Edgar Allen Poe’s short stories and poems and couples them with the visual art of thirteen talented and engaging artists.read more
View ArticleBook review: Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
If this was a dance, it would be the Charleston.read more
View ArticleBook review: Swann's Way: In Search Of Lost Time - Volume 1 by Marcel Proust
If this was sent to a publisher this morning it probably wouldn't get bought. Let's face it. "-and you say this is one-seventh of the actual book, son?"read more
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