Month: August 2023

• August 20, 2023

  The murder of my aunt

  Richard HullOriginally written: 1934, reissued by British Library Crime Classics “It’s fantastic. Making me laugh” – my mother. This is a fantastically fun use of an awful first-person narrator, who decides to murder his own aunt. Which is not a spoiler, but the premise of the novel. Edward, the narrator, is generally disgruntled, unimpressed and…
• August 20, 2023

  Have his carcase

  Dorothy L. Sayer, published 1932 I have a mixed relationship with Dorothy L. Sayers’ novels. I really enjoyed the first five or so of her Whimsy novels and was fascinated by the portrayal of PTSD and the trauma from World War One in her earlier books – a level of psychological insight rare for early…