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Tag: Potteries

Mary Kelly, The Spoilt Kill

This is a tremendous crime thriller from 1961, that won the Crime Writers' Association Critics' Award for that year. Mary Kelly went on to write more detective novels, but somehow her name has disappeared from sight. Crime fiction historian Martin Edwards says that she stopped writing fiction in her forties, because she chose when and what … Continue reading Mary Kelly, The Spoilt Kill →

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Kate 20thC, community life, detective, family saga, fine art, Mary Kelly, passion and secrets, political / social commentary, sociology, the life of the times, the world of work, thriller 4 Comments September 8, 2019

Arnold Bennett builds a theatre: The Regent

A highly satisfying novel of wish fulfillment bounds onto your screen in this Really Like This Book podcast scripts catch-up. In Arnold Bennett’s The Regent (1913), a wealthy provincial magnate builds a London theatre by whose success he confounds the city folk who know better than he does. There are no agonies and no tense little scenes … Continue reading Arnold Bennett builds a theatre: The Regent →

Kate Arnold Bennett, Edwardian, humour, oneupmanship, political / social commentary, the life of the times, the world of work, theatreland, Why I Really Like This Book 5 Comments March 13, 2017August 17, 2017
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