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LARA FEIGEL Look! We Have Come Through! Reviewed by Ann Skea

LARA FEIGEL Look! We Have Come Through! Reviewed by Ann Skea

by NRB | 15 Dec 2022 | Non-fiction | 0 comments

DH Lawrence as life coach? Lara Feigel’s examination of the writer’s life and work has a personal application. First, a confession. While I enjoy some of DH Lawrence’s poetry, I have never warmed to his novels. I have a cherished memory of a university lecturer...
TOBY FABER Faber & Faber: The untold story. Reviewed by Ann Skea

TOBY FABER Faber & Faber: The untold story. Reviewed by Ann Skea

by NRB | 12 Sep 2019 | Non-fiction | 0 comments

Toby Faber delivers a slice of publishing history replete with (now) famous authors. Toby Faber is the grandson of Geoffrey Faber who, in 1929, established the publishing firm Faber & Faber. He tells the story of Faber & Faber mostly through original...
STELLA GIBBONS Cold Comfort Farm. Reviewed by Jean Bedford

STELLA GIBBONS Cold Comfort Farm. Reviewed by Jean Bedford

by NRB | 21 Feb 2017 | Fiction | 3 comments

Gibbons’s parody is a masterpiece of comedy in its own right. Cold Comfort Farm was first published in 1932. Gibbons says at the beginning of the novel that it is set in the ‘near future’ though this only seems to manifest itself in television-phones and the...
MARK FORSYTH The Unknown Unknown: Bookshops and the delight of not getting what you wanted. Reviewed by Bernard Whimpress

MARK FORSYTH The Unknown Unknown: Bookshops and the delight of not getting what you wanted. Reviewed by Bernard Whimpress

by NRB | 8 Mar 2016 | Non-fiction | 0 comments

The Unknown Unknown illuminates the serendipitous pleasures of book buying. Donald Rumsfeld, former US Secretary of Defense, is not one of my heroes. Yet as Mark Forsyth has argued in this exquisite little essay, Rumsfeld’s 2002 phrase ‘unknown unknowns’ (linking Iraq...
The Godfather: Peter Corris on Lady Chatterley’s Lover

The Godfather: Peter Corris on Lady Chatterley’s Lover

by NRB | 22 Jan 2016 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 1 comment

I recently listened to a reading of the unabridged version of DH Lawrence’s 1928 novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover. Before that, if I’d been asked if I’d read the book I would have answered that I had, but I found this was not so. At most I might have read the bowdlerised...

ASHLEY HAY The Railwayman’s Wife. Reviewed by Michelle McLaren

by NRB | 22 Oct 2013 | Fiction | 0 comments

This novel of the aftermath of war, grief and library books is written with elegance and feeling. It’s 1948, and although the war has been over for years, its echoes reverberate. In Thirroul, a small town on the coast south of Sydney, Anikka Lachlan counts...
             

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