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Gothic Short Stories
David Stuart Davies looks at our collection of chilling tales from a genre now in its fourth century.
Stephen Carver looks at Northanger Abbey
Stephen Carver looks at Jane Austen’s first novel, which was also the last to be published
David Stuart Davies looks at The Scarlet Letter
David Stuart Davies looks at Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic American novel, a tale of sin, guilt and redemption set in Massachusetts in the mid-seventeenth Century
Bloomsday 2020
On Bloomsday, Sally Minogue celebrates James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’.
Under the Tuscan sun with Romeo and Juliet
In praise of serendipity: Stefania Ciocia’s chance encounter with Romeo and Juliet in the Tuscan countryside
The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
David Stuart Davies concludes his look at the complete Sherlock Holmes tales with this final collection of short stories
David Stuart Davies looks at The King in Yellow
David Stuart Davies looks at a book once described as ‘the most important volume in American supernatural fiction between Poe and the moderns.’
David Stuart Davies looks at The Valley of Fear / His Last Bow
David Stuart Davies looks at the final Sherlock Holmes novel and the penultimate collection of stories.
Looking for Kafka
Stephen Carver goes in search of an author who ‘remains as enigmatic as his fiction’.