Category: 21stC

• The Cheltenham Square Murder

  Sticking with squares, can I recommend The Cheltenham Square Murder, which is one of those lovely ‘forgotten’ books from the British Library Crime Classics. Originally published in 1937, it was written by John Bude, whose work I always enjoy, with a nice introduction by the wonderfully knowledgeable Martin Edwards, and it kept me turning the…

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  February 2, 2021

  21stC, Crime, Novels

  #ReadIndies, British Library Crime Classics, John Bude, Martin Edwards, Read Independent Publishers Month, The Chelteham Square Murder

• More Miss Marple (Take Two)

  A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October 29th, at Little Paddocks at 6.30 p.m. Friends please accept this, the only intimation. This, as I’m sure many of you will know, is the opening of Agatha Christie’s A Murder is Announced’, and you will deduce, quite rightly, that I am still reading…

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  February 27, 2020

  20thC, 21stC, Novels

  A Murder is Announced, Agatha Christie

• Hag-Seed

  Oh, this is good, good, good! In all the hooha about the Booker Prize and the follow-up to The Handmaid’s Tale (which I HATED, so I have no intention of reading The Testaments), this one seems to have been somewhat overlooked, but Margaret Atwood is one of my favourite authors , and The Tempest is…

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  February 14, 2020

  21stC, Novels

  Hag-Seed, Margaret Atwood, Shakespeare, The Tempest