Enigmatic Women and Cryptic Art
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…
A running buffet of the thoughts and ideas that crowd into a writer’s life.
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…
Ardmore Endings struck me as a very American book. For instance, a British reader cannot fail to note the distance between places, and the characters’ nonchalant attitude to…
A good many actors refuse to read notices in the press about their performances. I suppose it’s hardly surprising that members of a profession, whose business is the…