In this week’s Dispatches from The Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle reads the first novel in Isaac Asimov’s juvenile science fiction series Science fiction set in our own solar system arguably began with Lucian, the classical author whose short satirical piece True History paved the way for later planetary adventures […]
In this week’s Dispatches from The Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle enjoys Alex Johnson’s new compendium of writers’ loyal furry and feathered friends When Percy Shelley visited Byron in Ravenna, he found the Don Juan author at home with ‘ten horses, eight enormous dogs, three monkeys, five cats, an eagle, […]
In this week’s Dispatches from The Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle argues why The Black Adder is, in some ways, the most enchanting series of Blackadder We’re always going to be in a minority: those who actually quite like the first series of Blackadder. This blog, as its title indicates, […]