Books in the Scullery
Jem BloomfieldBooks in the Scullery is a substack about books, their intricacies, and the connections between them. From Agatha Christie to medieval mystery plays, via Renaissance poetry, Jane Austen, Narnia and more.
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Rereading the Secret History: Chapter 2 (i)
Chapter two begins with preparations for the lunch to which Bunny invited Richard. This allows Tartt to emphasize a major element in The Secret History: clothes. The book is very concerned with what people wear, and Richard’s initial descri...
Rereading The Secret History: Chapter 1 (ii)
And so my reread of The Secret History reaches the latter part of the first chapter. (The first part is here.) In which Richard Papen, having applied to study Classics with Julian and his select group of students, and having been refused, m...
Rereading The Secret History: Chapter 1 (i)
I’m starting a series on Books in the Scullery where I’ll be rereading books chapter by chapter. I’m an inveterate rereader, always going back to old favourites, and I thought it’d be rather fun to do so in the newsletter. My first book on...
The Beretta Conundrum
[I wrote this piece on mistakes in the text of detective novels a number of years ago, and thought it would interest and/or amuse my subscribers…]
Textual criticism isn’t a discipline often employed in the study of detective fiction, as fa...
Mystery Tour
A few years ago I went for a walk on an unusually sunny day, whilst thinking about detective fiction. As I left my office and rambled around campus (and the park over the road), I ended up imagining the detective novels which would suit the...
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A writer and literary critic. Interested in detective fiction, Shakespeare, fantasy novels, the Bible, romance, Renaissance poetry, Jane Austen...
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