The Furies (2022) by John Connolly
The Furies (2022) by John Connolly[spacer height=”25px”] A very good friend is a huge fan of John Connolly and it is through her that I got to hear of him. She’s mentioned him so...
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Digby reflects on visits to the Visa & Immigration Service and Support (sic) Centre, Solihul
Visas & Immigration Service and Support (sic) Centre, Solihull I had to get a special visa when I emigrated, in 1975, from Australia to Britain. My grandparents were, all four, English, but that was...
A Gothic Read – The Monk
The Monk by Matthew Lewis is probably the oldest novel I’ve read. It was written around 1794 and likely published soon after as reference to the second edition notes that he had expunged various...
Digby takes to the open road (2)
The Thrill of the Open Road: Can you Survive without a Smartphone? Generation by generation we become less able to cope without specialist help. My grandfather could set up and run a small gold...
Digby takes to the open road (1)
The Thrill of the Open Road 1947-53: In Which Potchefstroom Outclasses Sorrento At the age of six I was taken in a Morris Eight Series E (1939 model, four-door, to export specification, dark blue...
Digby reflects on encounters with famous authors
Some Famous Authors As a development officer in the Gloucestershire County Library Service I got in touch with local authors before Library Week. Most eminent was Laurie Lee (and the most dramatic) but, eschewing...
Digby Reflects further on being an oral historian (3)
Oral Historian is an Ancient Calling, the Essential Craft, my Dream Job: and all they want to read about is politicians I wish now that I’d kept copies of all my transcripts and summaries,...
Kitchener: The man not the myth – Anne Samson (Helion reprint) #Preview #History #Biography
For more information and to purchase the book, click on the relevant image below In contrast to the existing biographies which treat Kitchener as British, the author of Kitchener: The Man, considers him an...
Rhodesian Despatches Quarterly 3 – Gerry van Tonder #Preview #History #Africa #Military
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Rajeshwar Prasad #Reviewed – #plays #scripts #drama #absurd #philosophy
Read what others think of Rajeshwar Prasad’s literary output: Theatre of the Absurd in India and Rajeshwar Prasad’s Plays in IJRE by Dr. Ramsurat (2025) https://www.englishjournal.net/archives/2025/vol7issue2/PartA/7-1-172-135.pdf Theatre of the Absurd: East and West in...
Seeking Cooperation – Abdolhai Shammasi #Preview #Drama #Philosophy
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Rhodesian Despatches Quarterly 2 – Gerry van Tonder #Preview #History #Africa #Military
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Digby Reflects further on being an oral historian (2)
Oral Historian is an Ancient Calling, the Essential Craft, my Dream Job: and here’s why it wasn’t perfect I served between 1972 and ’75 as Oral Historian at the National Archives of Rhodesia I...
Laurel and Hancock – Clive Greenwood #preview #drama #comedy #Laurel #Hancock
In 1960s Hollywood Stan Laurel is retired, and in the phone book. Anyone, from his fans, to world famous actors writers and comedians, can and do call him. Top comedians visit him in his...
A Memoir of Early British South Africa Police Days – Bernard Hugh Seymour-Hall #Preview #History #Africa
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On Butterfly Wings – Doreen Russell Smith #Preview #Poetry
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Nee Nee Moo – a time traveller – Jaquie Feldman #Preview #Children #adventure
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Digby Reflects on being an oral historian
Oral Historian is an Ancient Calling, the Essential Craft, my Dream Job: and here is my most memorable Winter 1975. It was poor country, low knobby trees, scrub. Wispy grass on stone-strewn sand. Barbed...
Cracks in a Frozen Sea – Sandra Galton #Preview #Fiction
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Zero into Plus – Rajeshwar Prasad #Preview #Drama #Philosophy
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