History of Science and Science Fiction (Victorian Reading Project)
This was the third theme on my Great Nineteenth-Century Reading Project list, which I started in 2023. As with the other themes, there was a mix of poetry, fiction and non-fiction in this list. Reading plan (chronological) Between starting the Great Victorian Reading Project of 2023 and now, I discovered that I had ADHD, and…
Agatha Christie – Dumb Witness (1937)
This Poirot novel doesn’t have the best reviews, either from its initial publication or subsequently, but I found it really rather charming. There is some silliness about the circumstances of the first murder attempt against old spinster aunt Emily Arundell, whose own characterisation seems to waver a little throughout the book. For the small period…
Eve Armstrong – Murder By Theory (2022)
Review I bought this a few years ago when talking about Dark Academia and detective fiction with a colleague at UCL. I’d particularly been hunting for something that involved economists, but this was adjacent and seemed like fun: two novella-length stories inviting us behind the scenes to see how working in academia can be murder!…
Amy Gentry – Good as Gone (2016)
Review I enjoyed this as an audiobook a few years ago, when my child was very small and it was useful to have things to listen to so that I could walk around the park repetitively, or the flat, etc., etc. While this novel eventually gets to the whodunnit and whatdun of the apparent crime…
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Dominique Gracia 