2606 Books and counting..........

Thanks to James Shapiro’s Contested Will , I am more than a little relieved to announce that normal service has now been resumed in my mind....

I very nearly didn’t read this book.   Having unwrapped it from its Amazon packaging, I casually gave the back cover a glance, just to see w...

This particular instalment of my irregular series of posts on books that bear special memories for me is a bit of a cheat.   A stretching of...

As you will know, if you read my post on JL Carrell’s first Shakespearean novel, I wasn’t overly impressed.   Nevertheless, I’ve recentl...

You would have thought that some great novels could be written with Shakespearean themes.  The mysteries surrounding his identity, th...

Well, it’s obvious really, isn’t it?   Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare, didn’t he?   Only, it may not be quite that simple.   You see, possibl...