Sylvia Townsend Warner – Ted Hayden

Olga Ravn “The Employees” – PD James “A Certain Justice” – Sylvia Townsend Warner “The Corner that Held Them” – Diana Souhami “No Modernism without Lesbians” – Leonora Carrington “The Hearing Trumpet”

Five novels about communities: The employees of an interstellar startup. The barristers and employees of a British legal chambers. The nuns of a medieval convent. The lesbian artists and patrons who created modernism. The residents of a nursing home. The darkest of these novels are the most conventional (A Certain Justice) and the most experimentalContinue reading “Olga Ravn “The Employees” – PD James “A Certain Justice” – Sylvia Townsend Warner “The Corner that Held Them” – Diana Souhami “No Modernism without Lesbians” – Leonora Carrington “The Hearing Trumpet””