The End of Obscenity by Charles Rembar
interesting book of the legal history of removing literary censorship
Tag: LAdy Chatterley’s Lover
Sex In Society by Alex Comfort
hubba hubba hubba
The Priest of Love by Harry T. Moore
An un-Lawrentian D.H. Lawrence biography
Maurice by E. M. Forster
a snobbish delight
Beatlebone by Kevin Barry
We need to talk about how you wouldn’t get a literary novelist called Kevin in England
Mornings in Mexico by D. H. Lawrence
DHL happy in Mexico, then beautifully sad elsewhere.
D. H. Lawrence and Italy
I review a Lawrentian travel writing collection containing Twilight in Italy, Sea and Sardinia and Sketches of Etruscan Places.
Dusty Answer by Rosamond Lehmann
Rosamond Lehmann is not a widely-read novelist any more, though in the middle of the 20th-century, she was both popularContinue Reading
The Death of Ivan Ilyich & Other Stories by Leo Tolstoy
This week, I decided to dabble with a bit of Leo Tolstoy. I’ve never read anything by the big-hitting RussianContinue Reading
Venus In Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Given my love of sex novels, German novels, short novels and the Velvet Underground, it seems CRAZY that I’d neverContinue Reading
Arrival and Departure by Arthur Koestler
This is the last of the lovely old books I bought whilst in Hay-on-Wye a few weeks ago, a charmingContinue Reading
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
Tropic of Cancer, to use a colloquialism Miller might have approved of, is a cunt’s hair from being EXACTLY myContinue Reading
Novel on Yellow Paper by Stevie Smith
This is absolutely my kind of thing. Stylistically experimental, full of various exploratory digressions and displaying a full and rounded insightContinue Reading
Triumph Of The Now 