Tag: early Twentieth Century
When Chief Superintendent Lepinov’s bloated, battered body is discovered in a well with a padded wooden box placed over his bashed-in head on the opening page of Alan Bilton’s The End of the Yellow House, one might suppose this is the beginning of a mystery novel. This notion is reinforced soon after, when a second […]
The Queen of Romance, Marguerite Jervis: A Biography by Liz Jones
Bookclub discussing the biography, The Queen of Romance, by Liz Jones, about the mass-selling romance novelist Marguerite Jervis (1886-1964), who was …
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Early Twentieth-century Welsh Plays in English, Vol 1: ‘A Dirty Broth’
The first volume of a two-book series devoted to Welsh writing for the theatre, A Dirty Broth, contains the complete texts of just three plays. You m …
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Saints and Lodgers: Poems of WH Davies
I am the Poet Davies, William, I sin without a blush or blink: I am a man that lives to eat; I am a man that lives to drink Thus, with the easy …
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The Nightingale Silenced
The author Margiad Evans had her first epileptic fit in May 1950, alone, in an isolated cottage in the Cotswolds, only a few months before the birth o …
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