Thursday 9 December 2010

Dornford Yates

Nobody talks about Dornford Yates any more and you have to scour second hand bookstores to find him.  His books were very much of his age, the golden age.  The men were square jawed heros and the women were mainly there to offer moral support or to be damsels in distress.  There are car chases and evil gangs to defeat but you can always be assured that the good will end happily and the bad unhappily.

2 comments:

  1. hi koala girl good luck on your blog mav xx

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  2. I love the look of old books on a bookshelf - far nicer than all those gaudy hardbacks.

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