The Lady in the Tower is an unclassifiable book, and I hate saying this because it’s become something of a cliché in itself. So I’ll withdraw it immediately. I have long held that at the back of what we know as a sort of public façade of British XXth Century literature, the official canon of […]
Richard Blake Brown was born in January 1902 in Boston but the same year was brought by his parents to England because his father had invented a system of power-signalling (whatever that may be) to be used in the electrification of the London Underground railways. He was a schoolfellow of Rupert Croft-Cooke (who is sure […]
Gwyn Griffin is an unknown name, but he seems to have been both a popular and a critically well-regarded author in his time. On the strength of this novel, both were deserved. Perhaps it was his early death, at 45, from a blood infection, that condemned him to oblivion before his reputation could mature. Then […]
Norah Hoult was a natural for rediscovery by one of those paperback publishers who revive forgotten works by women writers for the excellent reason that they were women. Personally I think it’s much more fun to be rediscovered by Lord David Cecil and Philip Larkin. The feminist piblishing houses have a whiff of desperation about […]
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