Caccia alla MagagnaCome al solito, non sono una persona che si scandalizza davanti ad un sequel o ad uno spin-off. L’autrice può inventare quello che le pare, purché cerchi di restare quanto più fedele possibile a Jane Austen. Però esigo che l’autrice sia preparata, che conosca l’argomento di cui...
This immaculately penned gothic thriller from 1978 is an act of homage to James Hogg’s Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner—often cited as one of the first ‘postmodern’ texts and one of the few from Scotland—and romps along with enough interest for fans of cerebral horror or psychologica...
This early Austenesque sequel to Emma has really racked up some bad reviews since its 1996 publication. The story starts four years after Miss Emma Woodhouse and Mr. George Knightley were united in matrimony. They are in residence at Donwell Abbey after the death of her father, dear Mr. Woodhouse...
Admirable idea that unfortunately fell extremely short of the goal. The original Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte is one of my favorite classic books of all times. My 5th grade English teacher, who was herself British read us from the pages of Jane Eyre every day during recess one spring. While oth...
Heathcliff's Tale is a delightful conspiracy and satirical edge of the "Wuthering Heights" legend. This is a rounded and well written piece through the eyes of one Henry Newby, dispatched to collect Emily Bronte's posthumous novel for publication in London from the safe countryside surroundings o...
"'...I met the sad menopausee and offered her, at the flick of a switch, a return of beauty, youth, and desire. And - after all, I'm no stinge-merchant - power and money as well. Why not? If a man, such as Dr Faustus, was offered such commodities by myself... why not a woman, in this age of equal...
Black Marina, set on an 'island paradise' in the Caribbean, tells a story of great force and poignancy partly inspired by the events surrounding the invasion of Grenada in 1983. Holly Baker, an English woman, came to St James during her carefree days of bar-hopping in the 1960s. Somehow she never...
Had it been winter, and dark, with the seas rougher, her journey might have been difficult, even impossible. But a night-time summons was as commonplace to Kirstie McVey as one in the daytime, for Kirstie was a midwife and babies arrive, day or night, when they want to. Rob, the oarsman, looked b...
That this was frequently the case for the customers of Austin Ford’s ‘internationally famous’ establishment (announced on the reverse of the Escort Service card along with a line drawing of a cocktail glass topped with a cherry) was confirmed by today’s batch of drinkers in the half-finished vill...
Snatches of the tunes she had danced to in the Playboy mingled with the sonorous wailing: Our time is come … The River is Broken … Tell Laura I love her, Our Oppression is Ended … Blue suede shoes … The murky brown light of the now fully-advanced morning turned the stained glass sombre. Medea’s h...
What did Prince Charming and Cinders do when their wedding party was over and they’d made love in the beautiful rose-filled conservatory and toured the royal gardens and waved to the crowd? Get back to work? Try all over again for the video? If they were happy ever after, how did they fill the ti...
It was Russell Noakes: he was the owner of that small face, of course he was; and he ran – I always remember him running – to greet me as if my absence had been brief instead of the thirty-five years that had elapsed since I left Rye for the last time. It had been a sad, half-demented period when...