The Trespasser by DH Lawrence
unambitious, uncomplex, wish it had been sexier
unambitious, uncomplex, wish it had been sexier
interesting book of the legal history of removing literary censorship
hubba hubba hubba
An un-Lawrentian D.H. Lawrence biography
a snobbish delight
We need to talk about how you wouldn’t get a literary novelist called Kevin in England
DHL happy in Mexico, then beautifully sad elsewhere.
I review a Lawrentian travel writing collection containing Twilight in Italy, Sea and Sardinia and Sketches of Etruscan Places.
Rosamond Lehmann is not a widely-read novelist any more, though in the middle of the 20th-century, she was both popularContinue Reading
This week, I decided to dabble with a bit of Leo Tolstoy. I’ve never read anything by the big-hitting RussianContinue Reading
Given my love of sex novels, German novels, short novels and the Velvet Underground, it seems CRAZY that I’d neverContinue Reading
This is the last of the lovely old books I bought whilst in Hay-on-Wye a few weeks ago, a charmingContinue Reading
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This is absolutely my kind of thing. Stylistically experimental, full of various exploratory digressions and displaying a full and rounded insightContinue Reading