Book Review
Book Review: Imagining A Murder
Once Upon a Moonlit Provence Night . . . author David Sedgwick reveals why he just had to write the story of a brutal, unsolved 1973 murder. Hands up who remembers the name Jeremy Cartland? [more…]
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20th Century
Book Review: Silent Village, Robert Pike
There have been a number of books on the disaster that overran Oradour-sur-Glane on Saturday June 10th 1944 but this is the first one that I have read that finely details the lives of the [more…]
Authoritarianism
Book Review: A State of Fear, Laura Dodsworth
Mid-February, 2020: My wife and I stayed at our favourite hotel on the South Devon coast. There was a woman there who was coughing a bit, actually quite a lot; we didn’t think too much [more…]
Arts
Film Review: Big Trouble in Little China
“Big Trouble in Little China” by warpafx is licensed under CC BY 2.0 As a director, John Carpenter is very much hit and miss when it comes to critical acclaim and box office success. For [more…]
Arts
Book Review: Honest, Not Invent
Stanislav, a young Polish plumber, in reality a creation of blogger Ismael Smith, now sadly no longer with us. His comments first appeared below the line in the place we don’t speak of, and subsequently [more…]
20th Century
Book Review: Mani, Travels in the Southern Peloponnese by Patrick Leigh-Fermor
It is no secret that I absolutely love the writing of Patrick Leigh-Fermor, a man whose life would have been wonderfully interesting even if he had never published a word. I sketched out something of [more…]
Arts
The Avila Gold
The Avila Gold is a novel by David Westheimer, who also wrote, amongst other things, “Von Ryan’s Express”, later made into a very good film, with Frank Sinatra in the eponymous role. The Avila Gold [more…]
20th Century
Book Review: Patrick Leigh-Fermor’s A Time of Gifts Trilogy
Frequenters of Going Postal, being a generally knowledgeable lot, may well have heard of Patrick Leigh Fermor and, if not, will probably be familiar with the war film ‘Ill Met by Moonlight’ (starring Dirk Bogarde) [more…]
Book Review
Book Review: The Age of Arthur by John Morris
One of the most controversial books about the end of the Roman presence in Britain and the Sub-Roman Britain which survived until the modern shape of a Britain divided into England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales [more…]