A review of 'Northanger Abbey' by
#JaneAusten after a second visit for
#ReadingAusten2025 and
#RIPxx.
https://wp.me/sezD85-nabbey
“Born to be an heroine”: #ReadingAusten2025
William Beckford’s Fonthill Abbey, Wiltshire, 1796 to 1813, demolished 1845. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, in Northanger Abbey & Persuasion, introduction by R Bromley Johnson. J M Dent…
Dreamed cities: comparing and contrasting short stories by Angela Carter and HP Lovecraft, not such a strange pairing of authors.
#RIPxx #Bookstodon https://wp.me/pezD85-MP
Dreamed cities: #RIPxx
‘Another World’ by M C Escher (1947): Escher Foundation. ‘Celephaïs’ (1922) by H P Lovecraft, in The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories, edited by S T Joshi. Penguin Tw…
My review of 'Katabasis' by R F Kuang for
#RIPxx.
#Bookstodon https://wp.me/sezD85-kata
Hell is other scholars: #RIPxx
King’s College Chapel, Cambridge University, circa 1870. Katabasis by R F Kuang. HarperVoyager, 2025. “[It] started as this cute, silly adventure novel about like, ‘Haha, academia…
'The Driver’s Seat', the disturbing 1970 novella by Muriel Spark, reviewed for
#RIPxx.
#Bookstodon https://wp.me/sezD85-lise
Inconceivable sorrow: #RIPxx
Muriel Spark. The Driver’s Seat by Muriel Spark. Penguin Archive, 2025 (1970). ‘Oh,’ she says, ‘the inconceivable sorrow of it, those chairs piled up at night when you’…
'Codename Villanelle' by Luke Jennings reviewed for
#RIPxx #Bookstodon.
https://wp.me/sezD85-oxana
Tosca’s kisses: #RIPxx
‘Nemesis (The Great Fortune)’ by Albrecht Dürer, 1501-2. Codename Villanelle by Luke Jennings. John Murray, 2018 (2017). Compiled from four serial ebook novellas appearing between 2014 …
Three short
#Gothick romances by
#MaryShelley: ‘Transformation’, ‘The Invisible Girl’ and ‘The Mortal Immortal’.
#RIPxx #ShortStorySeptember #Bookstodon https://wp.me/pezD85-J9
Matter most horrid: #RIPxx
Roche Castle, Pembrokeshire. Transformation by Mary Shelley. ‘Transformation’, ‘The Invisible Girl’ and ‘The Mortal Immortal’. Penguin Archive, 2025 (1831-4). Th…
Christopher Lovegrove