The little white attic

1/ When I picked up Cecilia , having enjoyed Evelina , I wondered, is this a masterpiece unjustly neglected? Why is Frances Burney not widel...

1/ As I consider buying a Muriel Spark omnibus, I’m idly thinking about the books I own. We all know reading and book buying are two differe...

 1/ When asked whether we know a writer if we only read them in translation, I suppose most people would say either yes or no. I think it de...

1/ A Shakespeare fan never runs out of things to read.  I’ve been enjoying If This Be Magic: The Unlikely Art of Shakespeare in Translation ...

1/ My summary of the second chapter of the Book of Daniel:  The king: Interpret my dream. People: What’s the dream? The king: I don’t rememb...

1/ One of the joys of reading the Bible is going “So that’s where it came from!”. Ecclesiastes is full of phrases and lines I recognise:  “V...

1/ Does anyone read the Book of Job without feeling disturbed by the cruelty and callousness of God? Why does God, for no reason, take every...

Having learnt that I read a bowdlerised translation of The Golden Ass (William Adlington), I got hold of the Penguin translation by E. J. Ke...

1/ I generally read classic literature in modern translations (for obvious reasons), so one fascinating thing about reading William Adlingto...

1/ Officially titled Metamorphoses by Lucius Apuleius but now mostly known as The Golden Ass  ( Asinus aureus ), this novel is interesting ...

I suppose one day I will read the whole of the King James Bible, but at the moment I’m prioritising the parts that I think have had the most...

1/ Not only did I not grow up in a (culturally) Christian country, I grew up in Vietnam, a communist and thus anti-religious country—I only ...