Reading Time: 5 minutes Compilation of juvenilia hints at the famed author’s first influences – and a characteristic sense of humour, say U of A experts
Tag: Fiction Books
Father Brown is G.K. Chesterton’s most durable creation
Reading Time: 4 minutes He was an early and vocal critic of Nazism. He was also an unapologetic opponent of eugenics and derisive towards the concept of racial purity
The perpetual fascination with Robin Hood
Reading Time: 3 minutes The bawdy, brutal outlaw of the original ballads doesn’t fit with the noble figure of popular mid-20th-century presentations
Finding new value – and a great back story – in an old film
Reading Time: 3 minutes D-Day the Sixth of June was based on an award-winning novel by Canadian journalist Lionel Shapiro
In praise of trashy paperbacks
Reading Time: 3 minutes What could be bad about stories that are pacey, and replete with nefarious dealings, treachery, passion and lust? They’re great fun and you won’t nod off reading them
Celebrating Christmas with Poirot and Marple
Reading Time: 3 minutes If you’re looking for some binge-worthy fictional subjects, nothing could be better than Agatha Christie’s signature characters
Want to write a book and get published? Here’s what you need to know
Reading Time: 4 minutes Terry Whalin of Morgan James Publishing explains why the author is so important to the marketing process and why e-commerce alone won’t get the job done
Stan Lee, left-wing culture warrior
Reading Time: 3 minutes Under his leadership, Marvel directly challenged societal norms on race, religion, war, gender and sexuality
The man who shot Billy the Kid
Reading Time: 4 minutes Pat Garrett has been maligned for killing his “friend” in a “cowardly” way. Neither indictment is persuasive
The crisis of diversity in the super hero realm
Reading Time: 3 minutes Look! Up in the sky. It’s a bird, it’s a plane … it’s Daycare Dynamo of the Social Justice Warriors