April Lady by Georgette Heyer
ISBN: 043432826X – Georgette Heyer There was a silence in the book-room, not the silence of intimacy but a silence fraught with tension Nell is in a little spot of bother....
14 July 2006
The Wind That Shakes the Barley dir. by Ken Loach
Opening with a hurling scene in Cork in the 1920’s this film lives entirely within the experience of the main character, Damien. A young doctor about to leave Ireland for a career in London he is pulled into the Irish War of Independence. And this film is about his fight. The film starts without any introductory text, there is no attempt made to make the viewer aware of the wider world, this is Damien’s story and only his story.
24 June 2006
The Middle Window by Elizabeth Goudge
This isn’t the sort of book I normally would have picked up, if I hadn’t recently read The Little White Horse I wouldn’t have been tempted by this. But there it...
7 June 2006
The Egyptologist by Arthur Phillips
Read with Historical Favorites Journal: Arrival in Cairo via rail from Alexandria. Set to work immediately. Have scheduled five days in Cairo for logistics and background wailting prior to heading south...
8 May 2006
Tristan & Isolde dir. by Kevin Reynolds
I’m going to admit that I was looking forward to this film. Which is strange, because I didn’t expect it to be good. I even expected to be annoyed by the...
26 April 2006
Powder and Patch by Georgette Heyer
Prviously published as The Transformation of Philip Jettan: A Comedy of Manners ISBN: 434328014 c.1923 If you searched among the Downs in Sussex, somewhere between Midhurst and Brighthelmstone, inland a little,...
20 April 2006
The Medici Guns by Martin Woodhouse, Robert Ross
ISBN: none All day long, under a yellow and smoking Tuscan sky, the two huge guns vomited fire. The Medici Guns is set in the 1400’s in Italy, mostly centred on...
6 April 2006
According To Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge
ISBN: 0349114471 This novel may possibly have had a greater impact on me if I knew anything about the life and times of Samuel Johnson apart from the fact that he...
19 January 2006
Rome 1.11 & 1.12 dir. by Alan Taylor, Mikael Salomon
Double episode tonight, so I’m guessing that the BBC have cut a few scenes out of both episode 11 The Spoils and episode 12 Kalends of February. Ah well, we’ll just...
6 January 2006
Rome 1.10 – Triumph dir. by Andrew Jareki
How better to start an episode than with forgiveness and a threat? As he takes his seat as dictator Caesar tells everyone that he forgives them, isn’t he a nice boy?...
30 December 2005
Rome 1.09 – Utica dir. by Jeremy Podeswa
Last week we had a quick year, and between that one and this it appears yet another has gone by. Caesar and all our soldier-boys have come home to Rome. A...
22 December 2005
Rome 1.08 – Caesarion dir. by Steve Shill
As viewers we may know Pompey’s fate[1] but Caesar is still in hot persuit, and turns up in Egypt, and is, well, lets just say a little upset to discover that...
14 December 2005
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