Secluded Charm

I'm only a quarter of the way into Uncle Silas , the 1864 suspenseful and sensational work by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. I originally boug...

Thank you to Penguin Books and @Francesca_PR who supplied this book to me for the purpose of reviewing. Dani's Story  documents the tr...

As part of my PhD research I'm reading lots of sensation novels and trying to write a brief summary of events so that I don't get to...

One warning before I kick off this review: Of Human Bondage is an exceptionally long book. The copy I've got (from the Vintage imprint) ...

I was listening to a little debate on the Radio 2 Jeremy Vine show yesterday. It basically asked whether people were fed up of 'bonnet d...

Last night I attended a showcase of work by writers, directors and actors which celebrated work in this region. I was lucky enough to have a...

In the foreword to Of Human Bondage  I found some words from Maugham which seem to sum up the writer's predicament: Though authors are...