Having seen countless recommendations of Stoner by John Williams both online and in bookstores for a while now, I came across it recently in a charity shop and had to immediately pick it up. Faced with a long car journey later that day, I started reading it and had finished...
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The question of women in fiction brings a myriad of female characters to mind. Whether they be like Austen’s or Brontёs’ women – splendid, heroic, and autonomous characters with complex stories behind them, perhaps having been reinterpreted as some sort of feminist symbol in more recent times, or like Bukowksi’s...
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George Orwell stated within his essay ‘Politics and the English Language’ that using Latin, Greek, or other foreign words and phrases in writing is ineffectual. “Bad writers, and especially scientific, political and sociological writers, are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon...
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A Private Affair is a posthumous novel published in 1963 following the journey of an Italian partisan officer, Milton, during World War Two as he seeks to find the truth of his pre-war lover. His plight begins as he visits the house in which his lover, Fulvia, had lived before...
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