CHRISTINE POULSON J. L. Carr Archives

Eight novels set in cathedrals or churches

Posted on Jun 9, 2015 in Anthony Trollope, Barbara Pym, Dorothy L Sayers, Edmund Crispin, J Meade Faulkener, J. L. Carr, Michael Gilbert, Pamela Hansford Johnson | 22 Comments

Time for another list! My good blogfriend, Moira at http://clothesinbooks.blogspot.co.uk/and I are sharing our choice of eight books set in churches or cathedrals. I don’t claim that mine are the best books, but they are all books I’ve loved and read more than once. My first would have to be Trollope’s Barsetshire novels: all six, beginning with The Warden (1855) […]

This novel made me laugh out loud

Posted on Nov 19, 2014 in J. L. Carr, The Harpole Report | No Comments

‘Mrs Grindle-Jones in a very emotional state this morning. She stormed into my study and clapped down her register, hissing that “Those Widmerpools are away again, every one of them . . . Her eyes were brimming and her neck was a peculiar mottled red. . . At the time I was in the middle […]

Is there a more perfect novella . . .

Posted on Oct 17, 2014 in A Month in the Country, J. L. Carr, Sue Hepworth, Uncategorized | 2 Comments

. . . than J. L. Carr’s A Month in the Country? Earlier this week I took my friend Sue Hepworth (writer of excellent romcom novels) out for a birthday treat. We went to see an adaptation of A Month in the Country performed in the upstairs room of a local hotel by North Country Theatre. […]