Archive for December, 2010
Review: ‘The Lieutenant’s Lover’ by Harry Bingham
Title: The Lieutenant’s Lover Author: Harry Bingham Published: Harper, 2006, pp. 442. Originally published 2006 Blurb: Misha is an aristocratic young officer in the army when the Russian revolution sweeps away all his certainties. Tonya is a nurse from an impoverished family in St Petersburg. They should have been bitter enemies; and yet they fall [...]
Review: ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’ by John Fowles
Title: Author: John Fowles Published: Pan Books, 1987, pp. 399. Originally published 1969. Genre: Historical fiction Blurb:In this contemporary, Victorian-style novel Charles Smithson, a nineteenth-century gentleman with glimmerings of twentieth-century perceptions, falls in love with enigmatic Sarah Woodruff, who has been jilted by a French lover. (Goodreads.com) When, where and why: I think my mother [...]
Victorian literature challenge 2011
After the fun I had joining in with the R.I.P. Challenge this year I’ve beein looking around for some challenges to join for the coming year. Given the immense proportions of my TBR pile, I like reading challenges which provide me with gentle encouragement to read the books I already own, rather than those that tempt me to [...]
Review: ‘Tales from the Country Matchmaker’ by Patricia Warren
Title: Author: Patricia Warren Published: Hodder & Stoughton, 2006, pp. 248. Originally published 2003. Genre: Memoir Blurb: Since she founded the Farmers’ and Country Bureau from her farmhouse in the Peak District more than twenty years ago, Patricia has been helping love to blossom the length and breadth of rural England. She has hundreds of [...]
Review: ‘The Red Tent’ by Anita Diamant
Title: Author: Anita Diamant Published: Pan Macmillan, 2002, pp. 386. Originally published 1997 Genre: Historical fiction Blurb: Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her fate is merely hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the verses of the Book of Genesis that recount the life of Jacob and his infamous dozen sons. [...]
The sound of silence
It’s been eerily quiet around here recently, hasn’t it? I don’t usually talk about myself at all here, but I feel compelled to apologise for the longer than usual break between posts. I am still alive, but I have been otherwise engaged on an all too fleeting visit here: No, not Narnia, but York, my [...]