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Orchestra pit, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff

A minute past midnight

OK, this my final (?) post on the most non-canonical of the Wolves Chronicles, Midnight is a Place (1974) following a series of discussions. I’ve already discoursed on the characters, the geography, the timeline and themes, and it may seem that I’ve covered everything essential in relation to the novel. But in truth, apart from […]

Necessary to happiness

Inverted Commas 12: Necessary change “Is change necessary to happiness?” A few choice quotes from Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley (1849), requiring minimal commentary from me. “Stick to the needle—learn shirt-making and gown-making, and pie-crust-making, and you’ll be a clever woman some day. Go to bed now; I’m busy with a pamphlet here.” So speaks the Reverend […]

All we survey

John Dickinson: We David Fickling Books 2010 I found this an utterly gripping novel, especially after the slow and steady start signalled by its opening: He had asked to be alone when he woke. After all, he had reasoned, from now on he would always be alone. But are we really, truly alone? Will there […]

Willoughby Chase is a place

“The past fortnight I have been to Willoughby again,” as Daphne du Maurier did not write. With a number of other enthusiastic Joan Aiken fans on Twitter I have been discussing this author’s The Wolves of Willoughby Chase chapter by chapter. Our genial and generous host Ben Harris got us to consider literary points, to […]

Dark deeds and the Devil

Philip Pullman: Count Karlstein Doubleday 2002 (1982) Exactly four decades ago this year [2013] as a student teacher I took part in a college production of Weber’s Der Freischütz, when I sang in the chorus and took a minor role as Prince Ottokar. First performed in 1821 this was a landmark opera sung in German, […]

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