LARA FEIGEL Look! We Have Come Through! Reviewed by Ann Skea
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...
Read MoreTOBY FABER Faber & Faber: The untold story. Reviewed by Ann Skea
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...
Read MoreSTELLA GIBBONS Cold Comfort Farm. Reviewed by Jean Bedford
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...
Read MoreMARK FORSYTH The Unknown Unknown: Bookshops and the delight of not getting what you wanted. Reviewed by Bernard Whimpress
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...
Read MoreThe Godfather: Peter Corris on Lady Chatterley’s Lover
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...
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