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The Rudyard Kipling novel no-one ever remembers: The Naulahka

This week in the Really Like This Book podcast scripts catch-up, I plunge into Rudyard Kipling’s least read novel, The Naulahka. It was an absolute joy to read, because it was a rare treat: a novel by one of my favourite authors that I hadn’t already read, despite having been reading Kipling for about 40 years. I simply … Continue reading The Rudyard Kipling novel no-one ever remembers: The Naulahka →

Kate 19thC, baroque and dramatic, historical romance, oneupmanship, outdoor adventure, passion and secrets, political / social commentary, Rudyard Kipling, the life of the times, Wolcott Balestier 1 Comment January 16, 2017January 15, 2017

Gender performativity at its best: Georgette Heyer’s The Masqueraders

Swordfights and petticoats from Georgette Heyer, the grande dame / mother superior of all things swashbuckling, in this week's podcast scripts catch-up from Really Like This Book, with The Masqueraders, from 1928. Georgette Heyer wrote a very large number of novels. To those who haven’t read them, and simply judge them by their covers, from all their … Continue reading Gender performativity at its best: Georgette Heyer’s The Masqueraders →

Kate 20thC, baroque and dramatic, drinking, Georgette Heyer, historical romance, humour, outdoor adventure, passion and secrets, political / social commentary, the life of the times, Why I Really Like This Book 12 Comments September 26, 2016September 24, 2016

Sybille Bedford, A Favourite of the Gods

Last week I got grumpy about failures in historical writing, where we are asked to accept cringe-making historical howlers or listen to medieval characters speaking in awkward modern slang. Sybille Bedford's novel A Favourite of the Gods from 1963, in contrast, was a total joy. It retrieved my faith that fiction set in the past can be written impeccably … Continue reading Sybille Bedford, A Favourite of the Gods →

Kate 19thC, 20thC, Edwardian, family saga, fine art, G B Stern, literary history, passion and secrets, political / social commentary, Sybille Bedford, the life of the times, wartime 1 Comment June 19, 2015June 2, 2019
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  • Working is good for you: Louisa May Alcott's An Old-Fashioned Girl
    Working is good for you: Louisa May Alcott's An Old-Fashioned Girl
  • The scandal of drinking tea in John Galt's Annals of the Parish
    The scandal of drinking tea in John Galt's Annals of the Parish
  • Ayisha Malik, The Other Half of Happiness
    Ayisha Malik, The Other Half of Happiness
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    Stella Gibbons' Cold Comfort Farm
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    Josephine Tey's Miss Pym Disposes
  • Dorothy Richardson’s The Trap, and Oberland
    Dorothy Richardson’s The Trap, and Oberland
  • Gene Wolfe's The Shadow of the Torturer
    Gene Wolfe's The Shadow of the Torturer
  • Margery Allingham's The Beckoning Lady
    Margery Allingham's The Beckoning Lady
  • Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell revisited
    Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell revisited
  • Magnificently diabolical sexual politics in Jane Austen's Lady Susan
    Magnificently diabolical sexual politics in Jane Austen's Lady Susan

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