I don’t buy claims that paintings are more accurate than photographs, and novels more truthful than factual writing.
Writing tagged: ‘fiction’
Book review: ‘Pride And Prejudice‘ by Jane Austen
More toffs wittering on about stuff.
Book review: ‘Sense and Sensibility’ by Jane Austen
Like Jeeves and Wooster without all the ‘What-ho?!’s.
The gaping void between fact and fiction
Fact and fiction are discrete things, not parts of a continuum.
Book review: ‘All Among the Barley’ by Melissa Harrison
Rural idylls weren’t quite as idyllic as they seemed.
Book review: ‘The Gallows Pole’ by Benjamin Myers
18th-century Yorkshire meets the Sopranos: intrigue, betrayal, murder, and revenge in the Calder Valley.
Book review: ‘At Hawthorn Time’ by Melissa Harrison
An extraordinary modern rural novel.