Jessica Fellowes, The Mitford Murders. Sphere hb 2017, 419pp. Library copy When I was researching for my recent post on Mary S. Lovell’s The Mitford Girls, I discovered that Jessica Fellowes (niece of Julian, of ‘Downton Abbey’ and ‘Gosford Park’ … Continue reading → The post Jessica Fellowes, The Mitford Murders appeared first on Tredynas Days.| Tredynas Days
Mary S. Lovell, The Mitford Girls: the biography of an extraordinary family. Abacus pb. 2002; first published 2001. 611 pp. Why are the Mitford sisters, subject of this biography by Mary S. Lovell, so famous (and notorious)? In many ways … Continue reading → The post Charming cruelty: The Mitford Girls, by Mary S. Lovell appeared first on Tredynas Days.| Tredynas Days
Elif Shafak, There Are Rivers in the Sky. Penguin pb, 2025; first published 2024; 483 pp. I’m wary of novels with multiple story strands involving disparate characters and set in different periods. Turkish-British author Elif Shafak just about pulls off … Continue reading → The post Rivers in the Sky appeared first on Tredynas Days.| Tredynas Days
Virginia Woolf's impressionistic account in dense but beautiful modernist style of a young man as seen by others| Tredynas Days
Literary Wives is an on-line book group that examines the meaning and role of wife in different books. Four times a year, we post and discuss a book with this question in mind: What does this book say about wives or about the experience of being a wife? Don’t forget to check out the other members … Continue reading #LiteraryWives: The Constant Wife| Consumed by Ink
I scanned the first message I received in my Columbia University MA English group chat. Bookmarking my copy of Ayn Rand’s We the Living, a novel about the ills of post-Revolutionary Russia, I recoiled. Reviewing the text, sent by a researcher of “imperial conspiracy” in a “postcolonial context,” I felt my vision blurring. This couldn’t […]| Minding The Campus
I’ve wanted to read ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ by Oscar Wilde for a long time. Recently, one of my friends recommended it highly and so I thought I’ll pick it up and read …| Vishy's Blog
Non-fiction Viviane Robinson Reduce Change to Increase Improvement: My brilliant colleague at the National Institute of Teaching, Paula, recommended this. It has been hugely influential in developing leadership approaches that are clear and simple, and is full of helpful and … Continue reading →| Reading all the Books
