Until we can all meet together face to face again, our traditional reading group is switching online via Zoom.

The Prix Goncourt is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose...

PLEASE NOTE: THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS With a sort of trepidation, I have next to my computer keyboard a copy of the Penguin Book of...

It was January 16, 2017, and we were in the pit of winter. The huge buildings of South Kensington- the Museums, the high terraced...

Often, Africans are portrayed as an anonymous mass without individuality - for example, in Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’, which is...

Baudelaire, in ‘Les Fleurs du Mal’, is Janus- like. He looks forwards, and he looks backwards. His verse forms are, on the whole,...

Mid- December had arrived in South Kensington, and winter was descending upon buildings and streets, as if it could swallow up everything...

It was February the sixteenth in South Kensington, only a short while after Valentine’s Day, and maybe wisps still remained of the...