by Wilkie Collins A Review Published in 1860, The Woman in White, in its language and style, is very much a novel of its time, adopting first person multiple narratives, melodrama and bizarre coincidences in its telling. It is a mystery thriller, almost gothic in tone, combining themes that resonate even today: the equality of …
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.
Tempus Fugit!
Second Anniversary It seems I've just passed the second anniversary of my blog here on WordPress. I've written 51 posts in the past year, but have fallen behind my Classics Club reading, managing only 5 classics book reviews against a target of 10. There are so many other interesting and compelling books to read and …
Lucky Strike
The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith In her second novel in the persona of Galbraith, JK Rowling's war hero detective Cormoran Strike takes on a case involving missing writer Owen Quine. Quine has written a novel entitled Bombyx Mori in which he seems to have maligned and slandered most of his colleagues in the book industry. …
A Thoughtful, Studious Man
A Fathers' Day Tribute John Lockhart Junior, February 1905- July 1987 (adapted and abridged from my family history book Tapestry) My father, John Lockhart Junior, was born in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, in 1905, the third son of John and Georgina Greenfield Lockhart. My grandfather had grown up in London but, with his parents, emigrated to the …
Rich And Over Here
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James The Portrait of a Lady is one of those classics I always meant to read but never got around to it. It came up at last as essential reading on a lecture course on the English novel, so I felt obliged to tackle it. Though it has …
Möbius Lips
Thought I'd share this!
Elections and Economics
Numbers to Deceive The unexpected result of the recent British general election set me thinking about statistics, and polls, and how (un)reliable they are - and how people love to lie. I also wondered what Steven Levitt would make of some of the numbers. For those who don't already know, Steven Levitt is a professor …
Welcome back, Lisbeth!
The Spider's Web I talk and write about books a lot, usually about books I have read. For this landmark post (it will be my 100th post on WordPress in my present incarnation), I'm going to talk about one I haven't read. In fact, it hasn't been published yet. Rumours of a new 'dragon tattoo' …
The Theory of Everything
Travelling to Infinity by Jane Hawking A few weeks ago, I went to see the award-winning James Marsh film, The Theory of Everything, with Eddie Redmayne as Stephen Hawking and Felicity Jones as his wife, Jane. I don't know Stephen Hawking personally but have been an admirer of Hawking the scientist for a long time …
Pun Of The Weak: The Speed Of Light
“Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear to be bright until you hear them speak.” – Albert Einstein Says it all - no?
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