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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’.
The Hound of the Baskervilles / The Return of Sherlock Holmes
David Stuart Davies looks at the novel that suggested that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was not quite finished with his most famous creation, and the collection of stories that confirmed it.
Reading in lockdown
Consolation or confrontation? Sally Minogue looks at a few options.
Pippa Stacey looks at The Secret Garden
A Tale Of Thriving In Times Of Isolation – Pippa Stacey looks at ‘The Secret Garden’