Exorcising a family devil in An Extraordinary Afternoon
A critical look at three novels, praising Winifred Wilkinson and Dana Faralla while harshly judging Barbra Ward. The review lauds Wilkinson for mature insight into family harm and exorcising a tyrannical mother’s memory, lauds Faralla’s pastoral Ethiopia, and condemns Ward’s The Short Year as thin, sex‑driven fiction.
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Winifred Wilkinson
Gollancz
Dana Faralla
Somerset Maugham
Hell
William
Lionel
James
Walter
Helen
Dolly
Manna
Monna
Barbra Ward
Pembroke Miller
New York
Greenwich Village
Emil
Pembroke
Galapagos Birds and Islands in Nelsons Study
Review of Bryan Nelsons The Call of Galapagos Island of Birds with a forward by the Duke of Edinburgh. The author spends three years on the Galapagos studying Sulidae family boobies gannets and other wildlife, detailing nesting density, clutch size, food sources, and territorial behavior. The book blends natural history and vivid field scenes including a visit from the Duke.
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Haile Wolde
Ethiopia
Zaudita
Abba Rafael
Teshaye
Miss Faralla
Galapagos
Island of Birds
Bryan Nelson
Hrh
the Duke of Edinburgh
Longmans of London
Galapagos Islands
Nelson
Ecuador
Tinbergen
Tower
Hood Islands
Hood Island
June
Pacific Ocean
Duke of Edinburgh
Britannia
Aryan Nelson
A Sociology of Lourdes by Alan Neame
A compact review of Alan Neame’s Lourdes sociology exploring Bernardette Soubirous’s 1858 visions. The critique argues the work links visions to social context, questions miracle claims, and maintains balanced skepticism without denying religious meaning.
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Lourdes
Grotto
Alan Neame
Hodder and Stoughton
Bernardette Soubirous
The Phoenix Park Murders A Crime History
Tom Corfe crafts a compact chronicle linking the 1882 Phoenix Park killings to Irish politics and identities. The book threads conspiracy, public mood, and the clash of English and Irish forces while tracing self government hopes, assassinations, and the uneasy interplay of passion and policy.
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Brady
Burke
Ireland
Frederick Cavendish
Thomas Henry Burke
Phoenix Park
Dublin
Tom Corfe
Green Isles
Captain Boycott
Parnell
Gladstone
Young Readers Book Reviews Show Varied Classic Titles
Patricia Martin showcases Qing Sailor Sing as an imaginative heroic verse tale for children from five years up, about Bartholomew a Portuguese sailor in 1432. Marie Newrath John Ellis and Max Parrish describe They Lived Like This in Chaucer's England as a concise medieval life primer for primary students, though binding is weak. Nathaniel Benchley’s Oscar Otter in the I Can Read series offers a brisk, suspenseful reading experience with a challenging yet accessible vocabulary for ages seven to ten.
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Comte
Durkheim
Alan Neame
Lourdes
Bernardette
Pyrenees
Patois
Owas
Egypt
Neame
Mile Soubirous
Our Lady
Blessed Virgin
Evertheless
Peyramale
Chaucer
England
Marie Newrath
John Ellis
Max Parrish
Britain
France
Oscar Otter
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Irish Land League
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Patricia Martin
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Henry the Navigator
Columbus
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