Mr Weston’s Good Wine, by T F Powys (1927), and Mervyn Peake’s Mr Pye (1953) are English fantasies about sex, sin and other violations of civilised behaviour. Mr Weston’s Good Wine is an allegorical inter-war rural fantasia about casual rape, and Mr Pye uses a prim and postwar Channel Islands setting that shimmies with loathing … Continue reading Dark whimsy: Mr Powys’ Mr Weston and Mr Peake’s Mr Pye
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Now posting on Vulpes Libris: Chaldon Herring
Over on Vulpes Libris I've posted a review of Judith Stinton's complex book about Chaldon Herring. This is the Dorset village where five of the Powys brothers and sisters lived in the early twentieth century, attracting lots of celebrated visitors in the decades of their residence. You'll possibly have heard of T F Powys (Mr Weston's … Continue reading Now posting on Vulpes Libris: Chaldon Herring
Kate Macdonald 