Nige discovers 'a true giant among comic characters'... Having enjoyed and admired Masters of Atlantis so much, I've been reading another of Charles Portis's novels - The Dog Of The South (available for 1p from Amazon). This is the story of one Ray Midge, who takes off on a long and eventful ... Read More...
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Last month's Dabbler Book Choice was Ian McEwan tricksy new spy story Sweet Tooth. Here's Brit's review. To be in with a chance of getting your hands on future giveaways, sign up to the Dabbler Book Club today! Pictured above is The Interior of the British Institution Gallery, a painting of paintings within ... Read More...
Elberry enjoys a new addition to the pantheon of great surrealists... In an age of drably realistic novels about middle class London fools and their tedious midlife crises, it's refreshing to read a book narrated by the Principal Composer to the Imperial Court of Greater Fallowfields. Alas for Greater Fallowfields, the Emperor ... Read More...
Laugh-out-loud funny but undeniably rum, Nige discovers a true original... Does anyone read Rose Macaulay these days? She seems to be one of those writers who figure large in their own time - their books sell well, they know everybody, are in everybody's memoirs and letters - and then, after death, ... Read More...
The lead article in the current issue of the excellent Slightly Foxed quarterly magazine is by none other than our own Jonathan Law, who looks at the work of Tarka the Otter author Henry Williamson. You can read the original piece here. Last week, in the first of two exclusive follow-up ... Read More...
Elberry reviews a new spy thriller... Judging from British charity shops, SAS memoirs are being continuously bought, possibly read, and then discarded. They are popular but not, it seems, held on to for re-reading. Since the 1980 Princes Gate siege, the SAS have become a part of urban mythology, as supermen ... Read More...
Last month The Dabbler witches rummaged around in their cauldron to summon forth 10 free copies of The Daylight Gate by Jeanette Winterson, which were duly distributed amongst the members of the Dabbler Book Club. As Worm describes below, It turns out that it was a devilishly good read. To ... Read More...
The lead article in the current issue of the excellent Slightly Foxed quarterly magazine is by none other than our own Jonathan Law, who looks at the work of Tarka the Otter author Henry Williamson. You can read the original piece here. In the first of two exclusive follow-up articles ... Read More...
The lead article in the current issue of the excellent Slightly Foxed quarterly magazine is by none other than our own Jonathan Law, who looks at the work (and alarming Nazi politics) of Tarka the Otter author Henry Williamson. Here is the original piece, and in the next two weeks ... Read More...
Nige is dazzled by the debut of a now largely forgotten author... William Gerhardie's Futility, published in 1922 (and available for 1p from Amazon), was a dazzling debut novel. Here's how it begins: And then it struck me that the only thing to do was to fit all this into a book. ... Read More...
