
Emma
For today’s ‘Weekend Watcher’ review I’m comparing two film versions of the Jane Austen novel ‘Emma’. The Gwyneth Paltrow version was...

The Years by Virginia Woolf
'The Years' is once again a very realistic, natural novel about people and their feelings.

A Spy in the House of Love by Anais Nin
This groundbreaking novel presented a female character as capable of taking pleasure from sex without love in a way more often associated

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
This novel was published in 1818 when its author was 20, and it was inspired by her visits to Germany and Switzerland. So far, so typical...

Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
This incredibly short novel is a mere one hundred and twenty pages yet it packs in striking characterisation and vivid setting.

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
I'll start this 'Monday Musings' from John C Adams Reviews by mentioning that the premise of 'Pale Fire' is very simple.

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte as a Ghost Story
The genius of Emily Brontë's only novel is reason enough to dive right in, but I've been mulling over why it's such a wonderful ghost story.

Maurice by EM Forster
It's not easy being LGBT even now, and in some parts of the world it is still positively terrifying in terms of your physical safety.

Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh had two missions in life and at both he was incredibly successful. The first was to produce memorable quips and one-liners.