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> <channel><title>California Literary Review &#187; Great Britain</title> <atom:link href="http://calitreview.com/category/topics/great-britain/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://calitreview.com</link> <description>An arts and culture magazine.</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:12:32 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator> <item><title>Movie Review: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy</title><link>http://calitreview.com/22955</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/22955#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 18:27:21 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Espionage]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies & TV]]></category> <category><![CDATA[1970s]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cold War]]></category> <category><![CDATA[John Le Carré]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movie thriller]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=22955</guid> <description><![CDATA[Most of the actual “spy stuff” that goes on is hidden even from the audience, and hinted at later in passing. Every bit of explanation you need to follow this movie is in the script, but just barely. In other words, don’t take a restroom break.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/22955/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>7</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>May Day! May Day! It&#8217;s Robin Hardy&#8217;s The Wicker Tree</title><link>http://calitreview.com/22444</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/22444#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 04:53:11 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Best Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Horror]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Thrillers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Black Death]]></category> <category><![CDATA[British Lion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Christopher Lee]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cowboys For Christ]]></category> <category><![CDATA[cult classics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[cult horror]]></category> <category><![CDATA[horror sequels]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movie religious]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movie sequels]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies british]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies cult]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies horror]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies thriller]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Robin Hardy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Scotland]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Wicker Man]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Wicker Tree]]></category> <category><![CDATA[wicker man]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=22444</guid> <description><![CDATA[Early press for <em>The Wicker Tree</em> has not been overwhelmingly good, but one might say it has been encouragingly mixed. The original Wicker Man did not become known as "the Citizen Kane of horror films" overnight, or even during the horror boom of the 1970s. It vanished into relative obscurity for some time before its rediscovery, and look at that baby burn now!]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/22444/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Book Review: Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin</title><link>http://calitreview.com/21230</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/21230#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 14:00:29 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Charles Dickens]]></category> <category><![CDATA[nineteenth century]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=21230</guid> <description><![CDATA[The happiness was not to last. More Scrooge than Bob Cratchit in some respects, he was not particularly fond of his sons. Charley, his eldest, he deemed to be suffering from a “lassitude of character” and he did not see much hope for the others. He worried they might metamorphose into his father or his brothers, relying on him for handouts. And he was becoming thoroughly sick of Catherine.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/21230/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Art Review: Charles Dickens at 200, The Morgan Library and Museum</title><link>http://calitreview.com/20918</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/20918#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:00:21 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art & Design]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Charles Dickens]]></category> <category><![CDATA[nineteenth century]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=20918</guid> <description><![CDATA[Dickens’ novels probed the social ills of Victorian England in order to create unforgettable images of human misery and redemption in the minds of the literary public. Conscious of how the accompanying illustrations to his text would help in this respect, Dickens worked very closely with the artists who provided these memorable pictures.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/20918/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Book Review: Virginia Woolf  by Alexandra Harris</title><link>http://calitreview.com/20370</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/20370#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:00:52 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Virginia Woolf]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=20370</guid> <description><![CDATA[Woolf spent much of her life trying to free herself from the grasp of the past, specifically the Victorian milieu of her childhood. Her father, Sir Leslie Stephen, was the editor of the prestigious <em>Dictionary of National Biography</em> and a personification of the Victorian <em>pater familias</em>. Woolf both loved and rebelled against him. She suffered a severe nervous breakdown following his death in 1904. Yet it was not until her father died, that she was able to liberate her emotions to the point where she could begin a serious career as a writer.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/20370/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The 39 Steps at the Criterion Theatre, London</title><link>http://calitreview.com/19331</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/19331#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:48:20 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jem Bloomfield</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Blog-Theater]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Espionage]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Theatre]]></category> <category><![CDATA[John Buchan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The 39 Steps]]></category> <category><![CDATA[theater comedy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[theater London]]></category> <category><![CDATA[West End]]></category> <category><![CDATA[World War I]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=19331</guid> <description><![CDATA[The fact that it can now boast of being the longest-running comedy currently in the West End suggests that it taps pretty successfully into a tradition as firmly British as Hannay himself: a need to mock the idea of hearty “Britishness”, even as we celebrate it at one remove.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/19331/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Book Review: Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones</title><link>http://calitreview.com/18114</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/18114#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 14:44:46 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jem Bloomfield</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sociology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[chavs]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=18114</guid> <description><![CDATA[But wherever it originated, the word conjures up an instant picture of young people in cheap sportswear, swigging alcopops, brandishing knives and selling each other drugs whilst getting their fifteen-year-old girlfriends pregnant.  They are a favourite subject for the right-wing tabloids, and where the term “chav” is found, the words “feral”, “benefits” and “underclass” will often be somewhere in the vicinity, not to mention “lifestyles funded by your taxes!”]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/18114/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>A Watchful Eye On&#8230; Winston Churchill</title><link>http://calitreview.com/14602</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/14602#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:46:09 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Historical Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Television]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Academy Awards]]></category> <category><![CDATA[biopics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Max Hastings]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movie biopic]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies Drama]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies historical]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies history]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies war]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Oscars]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Quentin Tarantino]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Steven Spielberg]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The King's Speech]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Tom Hooper]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Winston Churchill]]></category> <category><![CDATA[World War II]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=14602</guid> <description><![CDATA[Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, known best as the wartime Prime Minister, held in his distinguished career a number of other high positions, including Home Secretary and First Lord of the Admiralty. Renowned as an orator and statesman, he enjoys a permanent place in Western history. The adventure and controversy pervading his professional life seem ripe for an enterprising screenwriter to pick.
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isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=13794</guid> <description><![CDATA[Matthew Shardlake the lawyer and his friend Dr. Guy Malton represent the arrival of the professional classes.  Landless but educated, open-minded, progressive and paid by the case, they bear a striking resemblance to the heroes of many modern thrillers.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/13794/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Weekly Listicle: Ballad Of The Soldier</title><link>http://calitreview.com/13701</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/13701#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 18:32:05 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Best Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Espionage]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Historical Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Southeast Asia]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=13701</guid> <description><![CDATA[This weekend, Peter Weir graces us with <em>The Way Back</em>, a tale of daring escape by prisoners of war. In due fashion this week's Listicle salutes the soldier in film. From comedy to adventure to stark, sobering drama, soldiers have faced a great deal on the movie screen.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/13701/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Brighton Rock Rises Again. Graham Greene Abides.</title><link>http://calitreview.com/13205</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/13205#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:00:14 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Best Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Best Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Crime Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Espionage]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Thrillers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[adaptation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Brighton Rock]]></category> <category><![CDATA[classic fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[crime movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[gangster movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Graham Greene]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Helen Mirren]]></category> <category><![CDATA[John Hurt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies Drama]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies suspense]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies thriller]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Richard Attenborough]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rowan Joffé]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rown Joffe]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sam Riley]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=13205</guid> <description><![CDATA[Acclaimed screenwriter Rowan Joffé will try his hand at the directing game next year. For his debut, he has selected an auspiciously high-profile story. <em>Brighton Rock</em>, adapted from Graham Greene's 1938 novel, is a captivating crime thriller and a chilling exploration of the human capacity for love, betrayal and violence. If all goes right, this will be one beautiful and scary film.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/13205/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>A Watchful Eye On&#8230; Sherlock Holmes</title><link>http://calitreview.com/13060</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/13060#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:10:53 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Dan Fields</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Best Books]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Best Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Classics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Crime Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Espionage]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Short Stories]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Television]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Fourth Wall]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Theatre]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Thrillers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Writers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[arthur conan doyle]]></category> <category><![CDATA[BBC]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Benedict Cumberbatch]]></category> <category><![CDATA[classic fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[detective]]></category> <category><![CDATA[detective stories]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Guy Ritchie]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Hartswood Films]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Jude Law]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Martin Freeman]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movie mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movies mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Robert Downey Jr.]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sherlock]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sherlock Holmes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[sir arthur conan doyle]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=13060</guid> <description><![CDATA[Sherlock Holmes as a strict Victorian period piece is over and done with, but the character still has potential in a new context. The only rule is not to stray from the unique faculties that make Sherlock such a distinctive and popular hero. If the story's focus ceases to be the detective's brilliant deductive logic, then the magic is lost and the character wasted. If, however, due attention and respect are paid to this detail, the rest is free and open to broader interpretation. ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/13060/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Book Review: Corduroy Mansions by Alexander McCall Smith</title><link>http://calitreview.com/10965</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/10965#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:56:24 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Alexander McCall Smith]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=10965</guid> <description><![CDATA[The legions of admirers of Smith's other novels, notably <em>The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency</em> series, will find a great deal to keep them happily reading <em>Corduroy Mansions</em>. The twist with this book, however, is that it is the print version of the author's first online novel.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/10965/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Book Review: Winston&#8217;s War: Churchill, 1940-1945 by Max Hastings</title><link>http://calitreview.com/9956</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/9956#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 18:22:32 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Winston Churchill]]></category> <category><![CDATA[World War II]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=9956</guid> <description><![CDATA[The next two years of the war for Churchill were a harrowing march through what his wife, Clementine called the “valley of humiliation.” Defeats in Greece, in the Battle of Crete and in North Africa in 1941 were followed by the Japanese capture of Singapore in February 1942. That same month, the daring “Channel Dash” by German warships under siege in Cherbourg to their home naval bases stung British pride to its core. Great Britain, the nation of Marlborough, Churchill’s warrior ancestor, and Lord Nelson was losing the war on land and sea.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/9956/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Book Review: The Art Detective by Philip Mould</title><link>http://calitreview.com/9528</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/9528#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 13:56:39 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Julia Braun Kessler</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art appraisal]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art portraiture]]></category> <category><![CDATA[eighteenth century]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rembrandt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[seventeenth century]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Vermont]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Winslow Homer]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=9528</guid> <description><![CDATA[Yet another of his discoveries turns out to be a lost watercolor by one of America’s greatest 19th century artists, Winslow Homer — a painting which had literally appeared out of nowhere one day in Southern Ireland, abandoned next to a dump heap! The work had been miraculously rescued by a local fisherman.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/9528/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Book Review: Wild Romance: A Victorian Story of a Marriage, a Trial, and a Self-Made Woman by Chloë Schama</title><link>http://calitreview.com/8661</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/8661#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:08:59 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sex]]></category> <category><![CDATA[nineteenth century]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Victorian era]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=8661</guid> <description><![CDATA[A secret affair. A scandalous sex-filled trial. A tell-all novel. If it’s any consolation to Tiger Woods and Jesse James, they’re not the first to be stripped down to their Jockeys on a worldwide scale. Welcome, William Charles Yelverton, Victorian seducer. ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/8661/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Small Wars by Sadie Jones</title><link>http://calitreview.com/6193</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/6193#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:16:21 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John R. Guthrie</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Cyprus]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sadie Jones]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=6193</guid> <description><![CDATA[The conflict becomes a war in which, “…there was no truth. It was a nothing, laughable Mickey Mouse conflict; it was a sinister time of terror and repression. The British were misguided and ignorant; the Cypriots were lethargic and foolish. The Cypriots loved the British; the Cypriots hated the British. The British were torturers; the British were decent and honourable. EOKA were terrorists; EOKA were heroes.”]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/6193/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Churchill by Paul Johnson</title><link>http://calitreview.com/5636</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/5636#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:46:59 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Julia Braun Kessler</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Franklin Roosevelt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Winston Churchill]]></category> <category><![CDATA[World War I]]></category> <category><![CDATA[World War II]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=5636</guid> <description><![CDATA[And Johnson reminds us of the memorable words he spoke after France capitulated: “Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years men will still say, ‘This was their finest hour.’” Here the biographer also observes,  “So the first true victory Britain won in the war was the victory of oratory and symbolism.  Churchill was responsible for both.”]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/5636/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Love and Summer by William Trevor</title><link>http://calitreview.com/5515</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/5515#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:08:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Mark Fitzgerald</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[William Trevor]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=5515</guid> <description><![CDATA[Why is it that summer can never last forever, especially when we want it to? The once long and amorous days wane too soon in circumscription. A small chill creeps down from the hills. Something is about to end. Then someone leaves town. Someone always leaves town.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/5515/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Democracy: 1,000 Years in Pursuit of British Liberty by Peter Kellner</title><link>http://calitreview.com/4828</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/4828#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:08:29 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jem Bloomfield</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[European history]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=4828</guid> <description><![CDATA[Magna Carta, that legendary document which is so frequently referred to in discussions of freedom, and which permeates our cultural history from Rudyard Kipling (“What say the reeds at Runnymede?”) to Tony Hancock (“Does Magna Carta mean nothing to you? Did she die in vain?! Brave Hungarian peasant girl…”) was produced by a power struggle between the military aristocracy and the monarchy. Any resulting “liberty” for ordinary people was a waste product of the medieval warlord industry.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/4828/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari Strachan</title><link>http://calitreview.com/4591</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/4591#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:19:12 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Katie Cappello</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mystery]]></category> <category><![CDATA[1950s]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mari Strachan]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Wales]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=4591</guid> <description><![CDATA[She sees faces in the flaking walls of the kitchen, fears for the soul of a matriarch’s fox fur, and interprets the ever-changing moods of the decorative beer steins on the mantle. Gwenni is a contradictory combination of fearlessness and naiveté, unable to discern the boundary between her imaginative world and the real one. In this way, she recalls such classic girl heroines as Anne of Green Gables or Jo from <em>Little Women</em>. But it’s her similarity with another classic heroine, Nancy Drew, which really draws readers into her world.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/4591/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>In the Kitchen by Monica Ali</title><link>http://calitreview.com/4480</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/4480#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:19:13 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Elinor Teele</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Monica Ali]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=4480</guid> <description><![CDATA[Yuri is a porter, one of Britain’s penniless immigrants that Ali would like us (and Gabe) to finally acknowledge. He dies alone in the kitchen’s basement, the victim of a tragic accident. Or is it more…? ]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/4480/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Waiting for the Etonians by Nick Cohen</title><link>http://calitreview.com/4131</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/4131#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:51:53 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jem Bloomfield</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[current events]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=4131</guid> <description><![CDATA[Nick Cohen is undoubtedly one of Britain’s finest living polemicists, and <em>Waiting for the Etonians</em> will be a genuine treat for readers who have come to rely on his rigorous thinking, stylish phrase-making and carefully controlled rage.  The book’s subtitle, <em>Reports from the Sickbed of Liberal England</em>, reflects his despair at the current state of left-wing (or “left-ish”) thinking in Britain, which he sees as almost irrevocably compromised by post-modernism, cultural relativism and the focus-group politics of New Labour.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/4131/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Bolter by Frances Osborne</title><link>http://calitreview.com/4113</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/4113#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 13:05:27 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Julia Braun Kessler</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[European history]]></category> <category><![CDATA[feminism]]></category> <category><![CDATA[twentieth century]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=4113</guid> <description><![CDATA[She introduces a woman who may have upset those around her by her promiscuity, even nymphomania, drug use; but also gives us access to a fearless beauty with gifts of intelligence, wit, and extraordinary powers to attract the opposite sex. Then too, she reveals that her antics as combined with her endowments were nevertheless insufficient in her hunt for love and lasting affection.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/4113/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell</title><link>http://calitreview.com/2601</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/2601#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:14:07 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jem Bloomfield</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[France]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Historical Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Military]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Agincourt]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bernard Cornwell]]></category> <category><![CDATA[European history]]></category> <category><![CDATA[fifteenth century]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Middle Ages]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=2601</guid> <description><![CDATA[Much more serious, though, is the book’s take on the medieval world as a whole.  Alongside the loud cynicism of its insistence that the battles are meaningless, the church is corrupt and the aristocracy live in a different world, <em>Agincourt</em> continually asserts a broadly positive, modern outlook.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/2601/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Erskine Childers and The Riddle of the Sands</title><link>http://calitreview.com/2408</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/2408#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:53:44 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Brett F. Woods</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Biography]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Espionage]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Literary Themes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Boer War]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Erskine Childers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[European history]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Riddle of the Sands]]></category> <category><![CDATA[World War I]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=2408</guid> <description><![CDATA[Set against the backdrop of a yachting trip to the German coast, the story weds a tale of adventure with the reality of Britain’s imperial overreach thus beginning a genre that – as continued by the likes of Joseph Conrad, Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene, and John le Carré – has matured into one of the most popular forms of entertainment in the literate world.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/2408/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Quarrel with the King by Adam Nicolson</title><link>http://calitreview.com/2184</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/2184#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 15:46:24 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Ed Voves</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Adam Nicolson]]></category> <category><![CDATA[European history]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Quarrel with the King]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Renaissance]]></category> <category><![CDATA[seventeenth century]]></category> <category><![CDATA[sixteenth century]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=2184</guid> <description><![CDATA[Nicolson concludes his reflections by noting that “the custom of the manor” believed “to an extent the modern world can scarcely grasp, in the rights of the community as a living organism.”]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/2184/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England by Bruce Redford</title><link>http://calitreview.com/1730</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/1730#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:07:28 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Judith Harris</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Archeology]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[History]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Italy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Non-Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art history]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Bruce Redford]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Dilettanti]]></category> <category><![CDATA[eighteenth century]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=1730</guid> <description><![CDATA[A famous double portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds shows members of the Dilettanti Society sipping away while making rude gestures about vaginas while holding up gemstones from classical antiquity and admiring painted Greco-Roman vases.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/1730/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carré</title><link>http://calitreview.com/1680</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/1680#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:36:12 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Jem Bloomfield</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Espionage]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Thrillers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[A Most Wanted Man]]></category> <category><![CDATA[John Le Carré]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=1680</guid> <description><![CDATA[The violent and crude final pages of the book force us to scrutinise our feelings over the last three hundred pages – did we will this? Are we guilty of this ending, if only by five percent? The brutal inanity of the dialogue is a warning that in Le Carré’s world, we don’t get to argue over the proportions and scale of what we set in motion.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/1680/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows</title><link>http://calitreview.com/944</link> <comments>http://calitreview.com/944#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:44:42 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Julia Braun Kessler</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Fiction Reviews]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Historical Fiction]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Mary Ann Shaffer]]></category> <category><![CDATA[World War II]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://calitreview.com/?p=944</guid> <description><![CDATA[Such a pity Mary Ann Shaffer is not around to enjoy her celebrity! Shaffer died in February of this year and thus missed her own miracle—best-sellerdom for a first book written by an already “mature” librarian, former bookseller, and unpublished, aspiring writer. The good news, however, is that her opus is engaging, ingenious and ahead of the publishing game.]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://calitreview.com/944/feed</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>61</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
