Happy New Year to all my Readers
Last year, I published three titles, which is pretty good going, considering I work so slowly. Not as slowly as Oscar Wilde, mind you, although I do acknowledge…
A running buffet of the thoughts and ideas that crowd into a writer’s life.
Last year, I published three titles, which is pretty good going, considering I work so slowly. Not as slowly as Oscar Wilde, mind you, although I do acknowledge…
Charlot ís a very accomplished piece of writing, and it is hard to believe that this is a debut novel. I read it in two sittings, taken up…
by Michael Reidy Here is a third novel featuring the urbane and gifted portraitist, Sir Nigel Thomas, and his celebrity friend, the actress Ligeia Gordon, known privately as…
This ought to be a very depressing book since it describes the onset and development of multiple sclerosis in an Oxford don. He is on his way to…
I have just finished watching the BBC series impertinently entitled Great Expectations. I watched all six episodes because the visuals are superb. The realisation of the period is…
Circle of Vanity by Michael Reidy If you enjoyed Michael Reidy’s On the Edge of Dreams and Nightmares, as I did, you will be delighted to find that…
What I have been watching La Strada (Fellini) ***** [Heart-rending] Matador (Almodóvar) *** Viridiana (Buñuel) **** The Impossible (Byona) **** [Surprisingly good] Bad Education (Almodóvar) **** Bonjour Tristesse…
The Turning Point by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst I began reading this intriguing book last October but other business forced me to put it down. I took it up again…
Like everyone else, I can’t wait to get away – to Provence, Bavaria, Tuscany – wherever. Not that this green and pleasant land isn’t a chequerboard of historic…
I cannot read in my dreams. It’s nothing to do with my eyes getting tired with age. I have never been able to read in my dreams. The…