Alexander Masters, Dido Davies and William Gerhardie
Having just blogged about Cornelius Medvei, and his friendship with the writer Alexander Masters, I came across a connection between Masters and a recurrent subject of this blog – the…
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Cornelius Medvei: “We don’t take characters and develop them; we set ourselves writing puzzles and try to solve them”
The Making of Mr Bolsover is a novel which it is relatively easy to find critical words phrases to describe – mock-heroic, deadpan, quietly subversive – yet each leaves one…
From “The Making of Mr Bolsover”, Cornelius Medvei
Perhaps then, Mr Cruikshank suggested, he would like to tell everyone which political figures he did admire. Without hesitation Mr Bolsover named Lord Salisbury, Queen Victoria’s last prime minister. Amid…
Séamus Sweeney 