Nigeness

 Well, I have finished Helena , and an interesting reading experience it was. It felt to me like a novel of two halves, the earlier chapters...

 Yesterday I was obliged to go down to the sprawling megalopolis that is modern London, and out again to Heathrow to see Mrs N onto a flight...

 'Collecting Old Books Is Now a Radical Act.' This headline in the magazine Spiked Online naturally caught my eye. The author, Phil...

 Lichfield memorialises its most famous son in various ways, of which one of the more unlikely is the naming of its hospital – the Samuel Jo...

 I am reading what is probably Evelyn Waugh's least characteristic and most nearly forgotten novel, Helena (1950) ,  his sole excursion ...

 Lately I've been obliged to pay a few visits to my mobile phone providers' high-street shop. Each time I've been struck by the ...

 Talking of Flanders and Swann, Donald Swann – the bespectacled pianist with the agreeable tenor voice – had always struck me as an archetyp...