Cabbie Monaco

I imagine that many youths have developed a loathing for Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway because they have been forced to study it. The...

'I have always found that if a man does not give himself a good word, his friends will not do it for him.' Barry Lyndon is not s...

Ruth Patchett has a good life, her husband Bobbo tells her so. Ruth is lucky to have such a good-looking husband, the neighbours often rema...

" Ever feel like murdering somebody? " Like many people I'm sure I've felt like it, but only in the heat of the moment, ...

" Have you a stout heart? Nerves fit for sliding panels and tapestry? " If so, then you'll enjoy Northanger Abbey , Jane Aust...

It can't have been a coincidence that Zadie Smith named one of the main characters of On Beauty , Howard. The book is inspired by the a...

The Russian Debutante's Handbook by Gary Shteyngart is about Vladimir Girshkin, born in Russia, whose parents emigrated to America whe...