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REVIEW: Cosima Wagner: The Lady of Bayreuth – Oliver Hilmes
(Yale University Press 2011) I picked this up at Blackwell’s music shop in Oxford (along with lots of CDs of twentieth century music) – something of a departure for me, since I don’t tend to read biography, and I’m not … Continue reading
DISCUSSION: Unacceptable views?
I was reading a very interesting discussion last night on the Smart Bitches, Trashy Books blog (which generally reviews and discusses romance novels) which stemmed from one of the reviewer’s low rating of The Grand Sophy by Georgette Heyer – … Continue reading
Whose Body? – Dorothy L. Sayers
(Rising Star Visionary Press e-book, originally published in 1923) Whose Body? is the first of Sayers’ detective novels to feature Lord Peter Wimsey, gentleman sleuth. When we first encounter him he is about to go to a sale of Lord … Continue reading