Bibliography, October 2022

M. Renault, Fire from Heaven (1969)

H. Atlee, The land where lemons grow (2014)

J. Didion, Slouching towards Bethlehem (1968)

R. Hoggart, Uses of Literacy (1957)

D. Landy, Skulduggery Pleasant (2007)

M. Le Conte, Haven't You Heard?: Gossip, Politics and Power (2019)

D. Orr, Motherwell (2017)

D. Simmons, the fall of Hyperion (1990)

  

Amongst my ever growing list of regrets, most of which were pointed out at the time to make them additionally galling, I include a regret that I didn't do Classics. I'm not sure I could have done Classics. I, as the memorable phrase has it, never had the Latin. Part of the problem is that I never really wanted the Latin, but I did and do want the Greek. As you'd expect, I still believe the most perfect expression of that is the Eastern Roman Empire, but reading Renault reminded me that there's a lot more Greek history I would have done. It's famous, it's very well done on the past, both the familiarity and the alien nature of it, it's bold on homosexuality, and it's compelling in the specific portraits of the protagonists. It's slightly too long, but still excellent.