James WardFeb 8, 20203 minWaterstones and how it caught me by surpriseAbout two years ago, I went to London with my wife to look at some Chinese porcelain in the British museum. There’d been a programme...
James WardMay 26, 20194 min‘Capturing life’It is often said of the greatest novels that they ‘capture life’, and this has probably been an ambition of most major authors. The...
James WardApr 23, 20199 minSeven reasons to suspect War and Peace may not be the greatest novel ever written(Warning: contains spoilers!) As far as I know, it was John Galsworthy that first explicitly called War and Peace “the greatest novel...
James WardJun 3, 20183 minMarxists: turn away now.Yesterday, The Communist Manifesto arrived for me in the post, courtesy of ‘World of Books’, an accredited EBay seller. A little green...