PLEASE NOTE: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS With a sort of trepidation, I have next to my computer keyboard a copy of the Penguin Book of...

Enard- an exercise in the macabre? The cruelty of December was assaulting the humdrum streets of South Kensington, the borough’s chilled,...

In his novel, The Masterpiece’, (in French, ‘L’Oeuvre’), Emile Zola- still seeming, as we look at him today, to brim over with courage...

The Author as Victim - or Carnivorous Narcissist? The prose style of Delphine de Vigan may not positively glitter, may not speak to our...

His books ripen on the shelves, Fruit boasting their own sorts of juices, Despite, to the touch, being dry paper... I seem to drink in...

The English version of the title of this book is ‘Trystings’; the literal translation is ‘Let us Intertwine’. The book is an analysis- a...

‘Rue Des Voleurs’ is about an old theme and a new theme. The old theme is French ‘Orientalism’, the fascination of the French for the...

It was mid- March. Winter, that season encapsulating darkness and misery, continued perhaps its malign grip on London, but there seemed...

It was February the sixteenth in South Kensington, only a short while after Valentine’s Day, and maybe wisps still remained of the...

It was January 16, 2017, and we were in the pit of winter. The huge buildings of South Kensington- the Museums, the high terraced...