The Scourge of Politicians Diary Controversy Explored
A critique of Cecil King's diaries and their publication aims examines how diary authors claim to write for posterity while sharing day by day political judgments. The piece weighs King's judgments of leaders like Attlee, Churchill, and Heath, and discusses the diaries as both historical record and personal ambition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cecil King
International Publishing Corporation
Britain
The
Times
London
Wilson
Dia
King
Labour
Clem Attiee
Churchill
Lyndon Johnson
Harold Wilen
Alec Home
James Callaghin
Richard Marsh
Denis Hey
Willie Whitelaw
Lord Robens
Edward Heath
Ing
Peter
Paul
Bank of England
Bank of England Foreign Exchange
Heath
Pavnisl
IPC
Patterns of Roses and The Summer People reviewed
A Pat tern of Roses follows Tim Ing ram a modern teen who rebels against materialistic parents aided by a red haired Rebecca and a mystery surrounding Tom Inskip’s 1910 death. The Summer People centers on 16 year olds in a love story narrated by Philip Martin with present tense prose, wartime insertions, and uneven mood but contains poignant moments and keen observations on life and love.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billy Bunter
Tim
Tom Inskip
Rebecca
Philip Martin
Stephen
Carolyn
Sonnets by Wolfe translation of Ronsard resurfaces
Sonnets LLEN and Unwin reprint Humbert Wolfe’s translation of Ronsard’s Sonnet for Helen. The influential sixteenth century French sequence has inspired both France and England and remains a celebrated collection, though Wolfe’s edition has been out of print since the 1930s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Llen and Unwin
Humbert Wolfe
Ronsard
Helen
France
England
Wolfe
H. E. Bates a Popular and Literary Author
A compact portrait of H. E. Bates, once a connoisseur’s writer, famed for The Jacaranda Tree and The Larkins novels, whose career spanned late 1920s to postwar years. The piece traces his rise from Rushden in Northamptonshire to London, his shift from novels to short stories, and his later fame as a popular author despite changing critical tastes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bates
Mark
Burma
Ima
Britis
Larkins
Michael Joseph
Rushden
Northamptonshire
Kent
London
Jonathan Cape
Manly Conrad
Bale
Cape
Pateward Garnett
Garnett
Earth
Bates and the Short Story in Wartime and After
The article outlines A. J. Bates career from early success in short fiction to his WWII commission by the RAF to write Battle of Britain tales. It notes his shift to popular journalism, later bestselling novellas, and a late emergence of Maupassant like storytelling influenced by Chekhov and Ibsen, with Bates emphasizing art for art’s sake over moralizing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
RAF
Io Wax
News Chronicle
Oliver X
Tarma
Ancoher
Bates
Tworml
Lydia
Midas
Cnt
Paperick
Genera
Pat Maupassant
Chekhov
Turgenev
Gorke
Ivarme
Marranve
Perinul
Perani
Maupassant
Arty Party Palace of Art by Stewart at Gattane
A review of J M Stewart's novel Mrs Monti a tale built around a priceless art collection in Nudd House. The plot threads hinge on heirs love and intrigue among connoisseurs with occasional 1970s social allusions. Venice settings bolster the art world atmosphere and satirical tone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palace OF Art
Mr Stewart
Inspector Appleby
Innes
Donne
Stewart
Henry James
James
Poynton
Montacute
Nudd
James Innes Stewart
Gloria Montacute
Keats
Kipling
Venice
Octavio Chevalley
Thurkle
Educe
Counterpayne
Lambert Domberg
Guise
Trevelyan in India and the partition era analysis
Hamplyes Trevelyan surveys two life threads from 1826 to 1947 focusing on Sir Charles Trevelyan’s Indian career and his nephew Hamplyes Trevelyan’s own experiences. It argues British attitudes, reform efforts, and the aftermath of partition shaped India and its princes, with notes on language, education, and governance in imperial transitions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Briauys
India
Partition
Charles Edward Trevelyan
Sir Charles
Intiar
East India Company
Tate
Charles Trevelyan
Edwand —Colebrooke
Delhi
Colebrooke
Trevelyan
Lord Macaulay
Humphrey Trevelyan
Revelyan
Britain
Nice
Lord Trevelyan
Trevele Santy
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Woman's Day
Mrs Whitlam
Cameron Hazlehurst
Tim Ingram
K. M. Peyton
Oxford University Press
John Rowe Townsend
Jean Rangecroft
Sonnets
Echo IN the
Jesus
Forgotten Worlds Visual Arts
Daltons
H. E. Bates
E. Bates
Readers’ Union
Sally
Breeze Anstey
Fogland
Atlantic
Uube
Maurice
Queensland
New Guinea
Michel Forcombe
Lansdowne
Hope Hewitt
Hamplyes Trevelven
Mavala
Lord Prevel
Sun
David Jones
TYG
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