When the journalist, Rebecca West, published her first novel in 1918, it was dismissed by critics as a ‘woman’s’ book and too ‘feminine’....

My book group has just read Master and Commander by Patrick O’Brien. Published in 1969, it is the first in the twenty-book series set in...

Staying in the first half of the twentieth century, I have recently read Long Live Great Bardfield: The Autobiography of Tirzah Garwood,...