StuckinaBook’s Weekend Miscellany

I’m going to do a slightly different weekend miscellany this week, largely because I had so many contenders for the blog post that I wanted to include. So this is just a round-up of reviews that I wanted to draw your attention to…

• I read Neeru’s review of Denis Mackail’s The Majestic Mystery ages ago, but didn’t get around to mentioning it. It follows the rule that every novelist in the 1920s and 30s had to write at least ONE detective novel, and Mackail’s is very entertaining. I listened to the audiobook, which is much easier to find than a paper copy.

• So pleased that Barb is back blogging at Leaves and Pages, and particularly since she has read and loved Miss Husband Simon by Mollie Panter-Downes – though, while you’re there, scroll through the other recent reviews.

• Radhika’s review of Elizabeth Taylor’s A View of the Harbour is one of the best reviews I’ve read recently, and it reminds me of why I love Taylor (when I’m in the right frame of mind). I have read this novel and don’t remember much about it, and Radhika’s writing and analysis make me want to go back asap.

• Let’s finish with Lil’s video about F. Tennyson Jesse’s A Pin To See The Peepshow – I love when Lil covers the British Library Women Writers series, and she has lovely things to say about this one too…