by wadholloway | Jan 18, 2023 | Reviews
In the hundred years that had elapsed since I had known the world, first had come a cataclysm sweeping away the old foundations and much that had been reared upon them, and from these had gradually emerged a new society
by wadholloway | Dec 21, 2022 | Reviews
These are stories of a world whose time, though not foreshadowed here, was coming to an end.
by wadholloway | Nov 16, 2022 | Reviews
Obviously, Praed saw women of her time as damned if they did conform to society’s standards and damned if they did not.
by Debbie Robson | Nov 9, 2022 | Guest Posts, Reviews
by Debbie Robson. To me, as a reader in the 21st century the novel is not the melodrama that Dark and even her biographer, Barbara Brooks, claims it is. I found the book a wonderful barometer of the twenties.
by wadholloway | Sep 21, 2022 | Reviews
It was in July, 1930, that I first set out, a wandering ‘copy boy’ with swag and typewriter, to find what lay beyond the railway lines. Across the painted deserts and the pearling seas
by wadholloway | Sep 14, 2022 | Guest Posts, Reviews
by Jessica White. “I was brought to the belief that there could be no such recent starting-point for an association like ours. It seemed far more reasonable to conclude that it had existed in past lives and that our attraction towards each other in this one, was the result of subconscious recognition”