The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 'If Dumas were alive today,' writes Keith Wren in his introduction to my current edition of The Three Musketeers, 'he would certainly not be bidding for the Nobel Prize for Literature but writing scripts for The Bill or Brookside.' Dr Wren's remark, written around 1993, may not strike many …
Author: Andrew G Lockhart
My name is Andrew Lockhart and I grew up in Coatbridge, Scotland. I studied at Glasgow University. After spending three decades in planning, statistics and international sales and marketing, I am now an author, family historian and owner of Magda Green Books. Apart from writing (and reading great books) and blogging, my other interests are science, music of all sorts, and traveling the world.
Classic Reviews – Free Book
For the last few days, I've been busy collecting together some of my earliest reviews into a little book, which I have now published on Amazon Kindle. The book is now available at: http://www.amazon.com/Classic-Reviews-Andrew-G-Lockhart-ebook/dp/B01E2TNBC8 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Classic-Reviews-Andrew-G-Lockhart-ebook/dp/B01E2TNBC8 and other Amazon sites, and if you would like a copy, you'll be able to download it FREE from …
'Do you want to come in?'
I sometimes wonder why Hollywood has to go one better than Europe when it comes to adapting novels for the screen. Last week, my curiosity got the better of me and I decided to buy the Bluray disc of the Hammer film Let Me In. For the benefit of anyone who doesn't know it, Let …
The Attic
A Short Story A whiff of something unexplained, alien, reaches me through the half-open trapdoor. I fumble for the light switch just inside on the floor, find it and flip it on. Nothing happens. The bulb has gone. Something crawls across my hand and I draw it back instinctively. The ladder creaks and wobbles underneath …
A Fisherman's Tale
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway '....nothing showed on the surface of the water but some patches of yellow, sun-bleached Sargasso weed and the purple, formalized, iridescent, gelatinous bladder of a Portuguese man-of-war floating close beside the boat.' His name is Santiago, and we are left to guess his age. What is …
Mansfield Park
by Jane Austen Having finished my review of Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe with the words of Jane Austen, I can do no better here than allow Sir Walter to introduce this one: '[Jane Austen] had a talent for describing the involvements and feelings and characters of ordinary life which is to me the most wonderful …
Real Neat Blog Award
I've been nominated! I'd like to thank Bronte's Page Turners for nominating me for a Real Neat Blog Award! I'm very flattered. The idea is for me to respond by answering a few questions and by nominating some other friends to do the same. Wow! These are the rules: RULES 1. Thank and link the …
My body is not my own!
Female 22 by David Hulett Wilson A Review What would it be like to live part of your life in a body of the opposite sex? How would you cope with the little everyday details of being a woman, or a man, as the case may be? Not only would the anatomy be strange but …
Britannia Rules
Bad Timing by Nicky Peacock A Review 'With his amazing organisational skills, Lyle had arranged for all the humans in Hope nad Glory to donate a pint of blood a month.' The title of my contribution today is in no way meant to be a political or racial statement! In my wholly unexpected (well, unexpected …
War – What War?
Whisky Galore by Compton Mackenzie A Review 'Beer does not taste like itself unless it is chasing a dram of neat whisky down the gullet, preferably two drams.' It is 1943, and war with Hitler is dragging on. The inhabitants of the two islands of Todday, like the other peoples of Great Britain, are suffering …
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