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The Thread of Flame Basil King New York: Harper, 1920 351 pages I raced through this novel, caught up in its plot and hungry fo...

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Miss Cayley's Adventures Grant Allen Richmond, VA: Valancourt, 2016 230 pages Men come off particularly poorly in this novel. T...

On this Twenty Sixth Sunday after Pentecost, an addendum to last week's post concerning  Rev Basil King's The Empty Sack . ...

The Empty Sack Basil King New York: Harper, 1921 446 pages "We're all different. Life as we used to live it begins to seem...

On November 11th at eleven in the morning the bells of London rang out their joyous peals, for the armistice had been signed and the...

Over pints this past weekend, I remarked to a friend that I'd just begun reading my thirteenth Grant Allen novel. This friend respon...