The Library

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Welcome Dave.

As you may have seen, we'd been saying that we need more people participating in the Library.

Any chance you'll be interested in attending next year's Convention?

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Well, all right, it's only Fortean Times, but he's still on the front page. The December issue of the journal of strange phenomena has dropped through my letter-box this morning, and virtually the whole of the front cover is devoted to Dennis Wheatley. There's a nice portrait with Arrow paperback-st...

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Just in case anyone is interested, there's a review of Phil Baker's biography in the Culture supplement of today's Sunday Times.

Steve, further to Charles's advice, I would forget about this new feller Dan What's-his-name, and read Come Into My Parlour and the biography at the same time (not literally of course). I often have a novel and a biography on the go at the same time, and I select whichever one I fancy when I go to b...

Yes, my copy has arrived too - good old Royal Mail! I've just been dipping in rather than try to read the whole thing straight off; but not just dipping in here and there - I've been dipping in all over the place. And there's plenty of scope for that in six hundred pages. My first impression is that...

Yes, I received a similar e-mail to Ken's on Friday 9th, saying my copy had been despatched by Royal Mail.

It didn't arrive on Saturday, but then I didn't really expect it to. I have high hopes for Monday though!

Once it arrives I imagine I'll be reading it to the exclusion of all else.

Just picking up on Alan's thread regarding Dornford Yates; we do know that DW was a fan of Dornford - he listed Yates (in "Drink And Ink", I think) as one of the authors whose works he enjoyed reading. From memory, I believe the Blackwell's auction catalogue of DW's library contained one o...

I think the answer is that a lot of the autobiography just wasn't written. I have it on good authority (from Anthony Lejeune) that there was no need to discard anything; the problem was more in the nature of finding enough material to fill one volume. Like Stevie P, I too am disappointed that the 'w...

I've just finished reading The Girl Who Wasn't Claudia , and what a splendid and entertaining tale it proved to be! The main settings of 1930's London and Budapest appealed to me from the start, and the book has a real Hungarian flavour throughout, whether our heroine is actually in that country, or...

Jim, I'll take your word for it; I think I've heard of Twilight , but I've certainly never seen it and know nothing about it. I remember The Twilight Zone , but think it was over-rated. I always preferred The Outer Limits , even if some of the plots were outrageous, and some of the aliens ridiculous...

I feel I should apologise even for bringing this up again, but recently seeing a number of DVDs of The Haunted Airman for sale on e-bay has reminded me just how awful this travesty of a production really was. I recall my excitement before the original broadcast, which I must have conveyed to my pare...

Ah Cibator, thanks for that. I've now started reading The Girl Who Wasn't Claudia (and very interesting it is too); maybe I'll pull out a copy of Traitor's Gate and have a look in there at the same time. By the way, if it's not too rude a question to ask, how do you pronounce your name? For some rea...

I agree Charles, it does look to be a lovely dustwrapper - unfortunately my copy doesn't have one. The Girl Who Wasn't Claudia is next on my list - it's the only other one I possess. As it seems to feature Hungary - and hopefully Budapest - I'm wondering if it will shed any light on that statue (you...