Dr Tony Shaw

'The Parish Church of Saint John (Grade II Listed) The first Church of St. John was built on this site in 1821 as a Chap...

    'The Temple of Arts One of the oldest surviving buildings in the town centre. Built in 1847 it became John Eastman...

'ALISTAIR COOKE (K.B.E.) Legendary Broadcaster, Journalist and Writer, Alistair was renowned for his 'Letter from A...

'In Loving Memory of MARIA, WIFE OF DAVID R. VERO, PASSED AWAY 20 TH FEB. 1913, AGED 76. SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE NA...

'Here lie the remains of RICHARD GORTON BARLOW, DIED 31 ST JULY 1919, AGED 68 YEARS. FOR TWENTY ONE SEASONS A PLAYING ME...

'In loving Memory of ADA, THE BELOVED WIFE OF TOBIAS BOSWELL, OF SOUTH SHORE. WHO DIED MAY 11 TH 1901. AGED 48 YEAR...

'RAISED BY FRIENDS TO THE MEMORY OF THE REV. JAMES WAYMAN, BORN AUGUST 15 TH 1840, DIED DECEMBER 8 TH 1899. HE WAS...

Coincidentally, I'm writing this on the first day of the French release of the movie of this novel, which is just one of several of O...

This novel is the final part of what critics have called ' Le Cycle de Marie ', or what the publisher Minuit seems to prefer to ...

Jean-Philippe Toussaint's Faire l'amour | Making Love (2002) is the first of a tetralogy known as Le Cycle de Marie (or the full...

'GEORGE WASHINGTON WILLIAMS AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORIAN 1849–1891' George Washington Williams was born in Bedford Spr...

'SAMUEL LAYCOCK, BORN JANUARY 17 TH 1826, PASSED TO THE HIGHER LIFE DECEMBER 15 TH 1893. THOU ART NOT IDLE: IN THY HIG...

'HERE RESTS, LIFE'S LABOURS O'ER, THE EARTHLY REMAINS OF SPENCER TIMOTHY HALL. PH.D., M.D., M.A, "THE SHERWOOD FORESTER...

'ALLEN CLARKE MEMORIAL WINDMILL THIS WINDMILL WAS GIVEN IN 1937 BY CORNELIUS BAGOT OF BLACKPOOL TO BE MAINTAINED AS A MEMORIAL T...

I know Olivier Adam has some unpopularity with literary critics, and Frédéric Beigbeder in particular has said that he has nothing agains...

I had wondered how Édouard Louis was going to follow up his highly successful En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule – apparently to be translate...

L'Épervier de Maheux (lit. 'The Sparrowhawk from Maheux') gained the Prix Goncourt in 1972, the year of its publication. It ...

G. B. Edwards's The Book of Ebenezer Page (1981) is not a book I'd have read without his biographer Edward Chaney making a comme...

Comme neige is Colombe Boncenne's first novel, and is a celebration of literature, a tribute to creative writing. It is also written...

This could be described as Didier Eribon's coming out novel, only not as a homosexual (which he'd already done) but as something...

'Prix Goncourt 1908' screams the title, rather oddly: 1908? A novel marked by 'frivolity' and 'inconsistency', a...

Pélagie-la-Charrette is the seventh novel by Antonine Maillet, and the first by a non-European to win the Prix Goncourt. After the remov...

The imprint page of this Finitude first edition says 2015, although it appears that the publication date of Olvier Bourdeaut's En att...

Oscar Coop-Phane's first novel,  Zénith-hôtel – translated into English without the hyphen or the diacritics, but with the title par...

The story: Joseph Mercier, a Frenchman, has killed a man and escapes to Germany, to Hamburg to be exact, where his devoted friend Freddy...

You would of course expect a book written in 1952 to be something of a peddle back in time, although this 1978 cover, with the bare-breas...