I’ve read three novels of Rose Macaulay’s to date: Dangerous Ages (2 stars); Keeping Up Appearances (3.5 stars); and The Towers of Trebizond (2.5 stars). I would give this 3.5 stars — I liked most of the book thought it was cleverly constructed. It was told in 5 parts, with three parts told by three

There has been something of a revival of interest in Rose Macaulay’s work in recent years. Firstly, the Virago reissues of Crewe Train (1926) and The World My Wilderness (1950) in Feb 2018; then, last summer, the British Library’s publication of Dangerous Ages (1921) a novel focusing on women at var

Sharp in its description of anti-semitism in England after the 1st World War. It reads more like a parody than a novel. Most of the key characters, with the exception of Arthur Gideon and Mr Potter, are thoroughly unpleasant. Reading this book gives some intellectual satisfaction but it is not a nov

Potterism focuses primarily on the years directly after the First World War and the newspaper empire of the Potter family. It highlights a movement entitled by it’s detractors as ‘Potterism’; a view of the world based on suspicion, fear and the creation of fake news. There are, it has to be said com

Gli amori e le sfide personali di due fratelli gemelli, e la loro lunga e appassionata lotta per affermarsi in una società scossa dalla Prima Guerra Mondiale, nella autenticità spregiudicata ma profondamente umana, che li ha resi simbolo rappresentativo della borghesia europea nella prima metà del N