The Dusty Bookcase

Received in the post yesterday, the latest Canadian Journal of Irish Studies.  A special issue dedicated to the work of Brian Moore, it feat...

A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder [James de Mille] New York: Harper & Bros, 1888 306 pages Forty years ago this month, I s...

This  annus horribilis  draws to a close – thank God – meaning the time has come to recap the last twelve months of reading old books. I tac...

This coming Thursday – September 30 – I'll be speaking on "Forgotten Montreal Novelists" at the Atwater Library. Forgotten Mon...

Poldrate Street Garnett Weston New York: Messner, 1944 256 pages The first resident of Poldrate Street to die is Sarah Reckon. She's kil...

My conversation with Joanna Braniff about Brian Moore's early pulp novels – part of last month's Lonely Passions: Brian Moore Centen...

This coming Thursday, August 19th, marks the start of  Lonely Passions: The Brian Moore Centenary Festival . A seven-day celebration organiz...

Dear Departed: Selected Short Stories Brian Moore [Belfast]: Turnpike, 2020 102 pages Brian Moore was first and foremost a novelist. He rece...

The Windsor Daily Star , 10 April 1951 Following  last week's review of Margerie Scott's The Darling Illusion . Until this y...

The Dusty Bookcase turns ten today. How is that possible? What was meant to be a six-year journey through the obscure and forgotten titl...