Stories By Jem Bloomfield
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Great Britain
Agincourt by Bernard Cornwell
December 13, 2023Much more serious, though, is the book’s take on the medieval world as a whole. Alongside...
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Fiction Reviews
A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carré
December 5, 2023The violent and crude final pages of the book force us to scrutinise our feelings over...
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Fiction Reviews
The Right Side of the Tracks
November 23, 2023Detective fiction revels in the possibilities offered by railway travel, but it also expresses some anxiety...
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Fiction Reviews
Lots in a Name
November 16, 2023Rather more subtle is Hercule Poirot, whose name contains elements of both “Hercules”, the classical hero,...
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Fiction Reviews
Gentlemen and Players
November 10, 2023Yet it is the amateur, the eccentric and the outsider who plays the hero in the...
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Fiction Reviews
The Solution to History
November 6, 2023These days the historical mystery buff can choose from works featuring Owen Archer, Prioress Eleanor, Petroc...
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Fiction Reviews
Who Didn’t Do It?
October 30, 2023The “golden age” of detective fiction, which began roughly with Christie’s The Mysterious Affair at Styles,...
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Fiction Reviews
Book of Hours
October 28, 2023Clocks, with their symbolic freight of time and plot, can serve as weapons with which the...
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Movies
Family Values
October 26, 2023Their glossy and frequently rather smug “postmodernism”, which refuses to acknowledge any authority other than previous...
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Fiction Reviews
The Key to the Case
October 19, 2023The locked room mystery has been a staple of detective fiction since Edgar Allan Poe’s The...