Novels Under the Skin of the Englishman The Green Gauntlet
The critic reviews RF Delderfield s The Green Gauntlet as an overwriting sequel that recalls many characters from A Horseman Riding By yet remains accessible to Australian readers. It chronicles Paul and the valley as they resist change amid poaching, bombings, and conflict, ending in credible compromise within a brittle modern world. A brief note on Pass by the Sea by Paul Stratherne notes stylistic polish but an insufficient arc, with potential for a second novel as the author departs from autobiography into broader imagination.
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Galsworthy
Forsytes
R. F. Delderfield
England
Paul
Jess
Pampha
India
Nepal
Paul Stratherne
Althrough
Asia
Africa
Latin America
Kennan
Vale of Laugh ter and Side of the Angels book reviews
Peter de Vries delivers a broad comedy in The Vale of Laugh ter portraying Joe Sandwich as a clever prankster whose rituals and misadventures span confession, marriage, and a neurotic daily life. Joan Rowan Wilson’s The Side of the Angels critiques genetic code plot devices through Kras and Karas as Western society echoes old tensions with scientific ambition.
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Peter de Vries
Gollancz
Price
Joan Rowan Wilson
Collins
de Vries
Joe Sandwich
Hamilton
Kras
Karas
West
Life in the heroic days of sail review
A detailed assessment of John Hunter’s History of the Port Jackson and Norfolk Island voyages. The Royal Australian Historical Society edition offers an annotated, navigationally rich account, with Hunter’s journal foregrounded as a core source. King’s diary on Norfolk Island provides additional context to settlement and Aboriginal relations.
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Port Jackson
Norfolk Island
New South Wales
Phillip
Ial
King
Liewt Ball
England
John Hunter
Libraries Board of South Australia
Hunter
Sirius
Hotany Bay
Broken Bay
Cape Town
Sinus
Batavia
Foundation
John Bach
Royal Australian Historical Society
Norfolk
Victorian cautionary tales and steam on the line reviews
Two mid Victorian era books contrasted. The Hole in the Wall edited by Gillian Avery gathers eight moral Young Readers tales by 19th century writers with curiously humane depictions of curious children and corrective outcomes. Steam on the Line by Philip Turner follows steam locomotive arrival in the Midlands amid clashes of conservatism and progress with lively characters and vivid period detail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gillian Avery
Mrs . Ewing
Charlotte Yonge
Maria Edgeworth
Annie Keary
English Midlands
Philip Turner
Kennan Memoir and the Soviet Policy Debate
A critical review of George F. Kennan’s Memoirs 1925 1950 highlighting its focus on realism and policy realism shortcomings the piece notes Kennan’s stance on containment and the American failure to grasp external realities while praising the book as a significant contribution to postwar history and diplomatic thinking.
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Foreign Affairs
George Kennan
Russia
United States
State Department
Germany
West
Lenin
Congress
Defence Department
Poland
Baltic States
Yalta
NATO
Kennan
Two views of Byron Missolonghi Manuscript review
Prokosch’s Byron study blends fiction and forgery as he reimagines the poet through his own lens. The review notes the vivid portrait, Gothick touches, and tensions with Augusta Leigh and Annabella Millbanke, while questioning whether the work should bear Byron’s truth or Prokosch’s invention.
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Frederek Prokosch
W. H. Allen
Augusta
Augusta Leigh
Lord Byron
Peter Guim
The
Bodley Head
Byron
Prokosch
Aspern
Cambridge
London
Italy
Middle East
Trelawny
Greece
Shelley
Mr Gunn
Byron Prokosch
Reluctar
Annabella Millbanke
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Lieut Ball
Ydney Round the Horn
O.U.P
Festiniog
North Wales
Darnley Mills
Devil's Back
Darnley Mills Light Railway
Taffy
Sarah
Pat
Henry Bridgebolton
Elijah
Turner
Centu Mayer
Conway
Lehl
Yuri
Bradley, John
Woolf
Gerassi
Verceremos
Ernesto Che Guevara
Verity Hewitt Pty Ltd
Arema Arcade
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George F. Kennan
Hutchinson
Bass
By Alison Broinowski
Rederic Prokosch
Schubert
Massa
Childe Harold
Annavella Millbanke
Tom Moore
Annabella
Don Juan
Sean
Wordsworth
Goethe
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