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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Lord Peter Wimsey's Dream
I’m not a huge fan of dream sequences in novels. They can sometimes feel as if the author is giving up on the constraints and discipline of writing inventively, in favour of a mode where anything can happen and so nothing matters much. Part...
Abhominable Rhetoric in Narnia
“Abominable” is not a word you meet every day. It’s not particularly obscure as a term, but when I think of great “abominables” in fiction only two spring to mind. There’s Mam’zelle Abominable, the French mistress at St Clare’s, who acquire...
Inspector Morse and the Freudian Slip
I offer this brief tale as a terrible warning. I came a cropper on this one, and perhaps you may benefit from my mistake. (Though I’m not sure I’d do it differently, even knowing I was wrong.) When reading detective novels, it’s natural to...
The Colonel, in the Garden, with the Impact of Wry Melancholy
A few years ago I read six novels by Margaret Mayhew within a week or so, and thought I’d made a remarkable discovery. I hadn’t, or at least not the discovery I thought. I read them after stumbling across her work in the back catalogue of J...
With Pleasure, Thine Annoy
I always enjoy noticing when a book has a quotation for its title. Agatha Christie’s Taken at the Flood, for example, or Sarah Caudwell’s Thus Was Adonis Slain. Being rather over-invested in the idea and activity of literary quotation (I do...
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