Author Archives: vhk10

This is a book out of its time. It was planned between the wars as a project for someone who never did much about it before his death in 1952, and was then taken over as a retirement project by … Continue reading →

I made a New Year’s resolution for 2008 to read Miles Kington’s column in the Independent four times a week. Sadly, he was dead by the end of January, something which has put me off such resolutions ever since. Here … Continue reading →

These ‘encounters with the master’s Composing Houses’ are written by an architect and Mahler enthusiast. Our copy was given to some family members while they were standing in a Prom queue. It’s a popular cliché now that men like sheds, … Continue reading →

N.B. This review is of the 1963 second edition of this work. Some of the defects may have been remedied in more recent editions. I would guess that this was intended as a source-book to go with the ecclesiastical history … Continue reading →

I must confess to not having read this, just flipped through it for 10 minutes or so on a charity book stall, deciding whether to buy. I didn’t, for the following reason: I’m a Bathonian (by over a decade’s residence) … Continue reading →

This is the script for the great movie where film noir came home to central Europe. But don’t think that you will know what it contains, because you’ve seen the film; it’s far from being simply the soundtrack to it. … Continue reading →

EE5BNTGVNBT6 This autobiography describes the author’s Edwardian childhood in Wells and Ely (with summer holidays on her mother’s native Guernsey) and adult life in Oxford and Devon before her eventual return to Oxfordshire. It is also in part a spiritual … Continue reading →

The book begins with a quick summary of Thesiger’s early life before describing travels he made over several years in the late 1940’s in and around Arabia’s Empty Quarter. These were the final years of much that had been a … Continue reading →

This was given to me as a student by an evangelically-minded friend. It’s really ‘Issues facing Christians in the mid-1980’s’. I’m aware that more recent editions have appeared, but there’s some interest in seeing what ethical questions and issues were … Continue reading →

Who might enjoy this book most? I found myself occasionally patronised – I don’t need to be told what ‘euphonious’ means – and some expressions, such as ‘all in the same boat’ and ‘against the grain’ surely need no explanation. … Continue reading →