The Dusty Bookcase

The Tempestuous Petticoat [ A Chicago Princess ] Robert Barr London: Collins, [1908] 200 pages Proper Englishman Rupert Tremorne serves as p...

'That Only a Mother' The Best of Judith Merril Judith Merril New York: Warner, 1976 254 pages The Best of Judith Merril  sees an an...

Neighbours Laurali Wright [L.R. Wright] Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1979 258 pages There's so much wrong with this jacket illustration...

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

Return to Today Margerie Scott London: Peter Davies, 1961 213 pages Vanessa Gray and Don Temple met in a streamy wartime canteen. She was an...

Quietly My Captain Waits Evelyn Eaton New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [c. 1943] 355 pages I first learned of Louise de Freneuse last autumn ...

Dove Cottage Jan Hilliard [Hilda Kay Grant] London: Abelard-Schulman, 1958 192 pages Jan Hilliard's third novel, its curtain rises on th...