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This is a guest post by the novelist Cliff Burns. Back in the 1990s, I was browsing my way through an independent bookstore in Saskatoon (now, sadly, defunct) and came across a title I hadn’t …
This is a guest post by David Quantick. Prayer: “Let us throw back our heads and laugh at reality.” Response: “Which is an illusion caused by mescaline deficiency.” N. F. Simpson wrote those words in …
This is a guest Post by Andrew Guschausky. The ways that we discover what we read are various. Sometimes we are led to a book by its reference in another book. Sometimes we hear mention …
This is a guest post by theatre critic and researcher Julia Rank. In this article, the term ‘gypsy’ is only used when quoting directly from Lady Eleanor Smith’s work. ‘I was born dead’ is the …
This is a guest post by Jonathan Walker, whose latest novel, The Angels of L19, is published this month by Weatherglass Books . Charles Williams was a friend of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis and, …
This is a guest post by Phyllis Orrick. Stella Gibbons’s first novel Cold Comfort Farm still resonates, if vaguely, in the popular mind. “Wasn’t there a movie?” Or, “didn’t I see that on TV?” In …
This is a guest post by novelist Rob Palk. If Clarissa is a neglected read, it might have brought some of that neglect upon itself. It’s 1500 pages long for a start and over the …
This is a guest post by the novelist Lissa Evans I’d never heard of Emlyn Williams before my sister gave me the paperback of his autobiography when I was about thirteen. The cover showed a …
This is a guest post by the literary critic Dr. Ann Kennedy Smith. It’s not hard to think of fiction set in Cambridge, from E.M. Forster’s Maurice (written in 1913-14, published posthumously in 1971) to …
This is a guest post by Ian McMillan Let’s face it, most poets are neglected (or they think they are) and, oddly, even when poets published by small independent presses are out of print, they’re …
This is a guest post by David Quantick And so they sat and talked and drank and even sang a little. And the Puppa came beaming up with fresh supplies, and the Mumma sat at …
This is a guest post by Barry Alfonso “God has always smiled on Southern California,” wrote Carey McWilliams in 1946. An abundance of blessings filled the landscape from the shoreline to the mountains – there …
This is a guest post by the writer David Quantick. “You didn’t have time to think about the dangers of a raid in the cipher room of the secret service sabotage organisation. You were too …
Written by Jayne Sharratt. “Hot off the oven of our own time” was the verdict on new novel The Big Firm, according to The New York Times of 20th February 1938, in a review which …
This is a guest post by Barry Alfonso, author of A Voice of the Warm: The Life of Rod McKuen To someone who grew up in California, a place like Wisconsin seems both drab and …
Since the Fifties, there have been plenty of junk or ‘Pulp’ novels depicting the Second World War from American and, to a lesser degree, British & Australian authors. (Yes, even Australia had pulp war novelists. …
For an obscure novelist, Michael Whitney Straight (1916- 2004) had an extraordinary life and career. A member of a distinguished family, his maternal grandfather was William C. Whitney, Secretary of the US Navy in the …
David Forrest was the pen-name of Australian writer, academic and historian David Denholm (1924-1997). Among his numerous works of non-fiction, including an acclaimed history, The Colonial Australians about the early white settlement of the country, …
A Walk in the Sun was a slim war novel first published in 1944 which generated considerable hype and attention upon its initial release, followed closely by a successful film version. Yet, despite the praise …
James Aldridge (1918- 2015) was an Australian journalist and war correspondent who covered the Second World War in Greece, Crete and North Africa 1940-1941. Signed With Their Honour was his first novel. Aldridge enjoyed a …