Tag: 20th Century Fiction

• Told By An Idiot

  Rose Macaulay’s Told By An Idiot was a bit of a disappointment. I had high hopes of it, because I love ‘The Towers of Trebizond’ so much but, sadly, this wasn’t in the same league, and left me feeling depressed, not only about the characters and their lives, but about the human condition in general.…

  chrisharding53

  August 17, 2012

  20th Century Fiction, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Told By An Idiot

• Farewell Victoria

  My vintage Penguin waspublished in 1945, and hasa dancing Penguin logo,used for a short period. Farewell Victoria, by TH White is a paean to bygone era and must, I think, have been something of a curiosity, even when it was first published in 1933. It’s interesting for its record of rural customs in Victorian times, and…

  chrisharding53

  July 11, 2012

  20th century, 20th Century Fiction, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Victoria, Vintage Penguin

• Never Believe a Book Blurb

  Never believe all you read on a book cover. That’s really all I would like to say about Paul Torday’s Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, but it wouldn’t be much of a review if I stopped there. So, where to start? This was one of my charity shop buys, bought because it had excellent reviews,…

  chrisharding53

  May 16, 2012

  20th Century Fiction, fishing, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen