Roger Wood's Biblioblog

 I keep rediscovring Louis MacNeice.   He was of course pivotal to my thesis on radio drama, having revolutionised the form during World War...

 Another Joyce Carol Oates?   Yes and no.   Strictly speaking it's Rosamond Smith, a pseudonym Oates used between 1987 and 2001.   And y...

 Got this in a double offer with  The Man Who Lost His Wife  (reviewed here last month).  This was the one that caught my eye, the one I rea...

 I have reviewed many of Rory Clements' wartime spy series on this blog.   I have enjoyed them all.   This, from 2021, may be the most e...

 I posted a review of Beckett's series before ( The Chemistry of Death , back in 2021).  That was his first, this I believe is his seven...

 Julian Symons (1912-94) was an eminent crime writer and reviewer of the second half of the Twentieth Century.   A big hit of his, which I r...

 Joyce Carol Oates has to be a living literary phenomenon.   I have been following her work for over fifty years and she is still going stro...

 I've been reading about Stephenson for a while and wondering where to start with him.   This seemed (and was) the perfect place, one of...

 Fred M White was a proflific author of stories for magazines and periodicals at the end of the Nineteenth Century and early Twentieth.   In...

 I started with Massie's Antony , reviewed here at the end of February, and now I'm onto Caesar .   Historically I'm obviously o...