Books
by Graham Greene
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Our Man in Havana |
A real surprise. Laugh out loud funny, a gripping and prophetic story line and a heart-warming endorsement of the little man up against the big battalions. A vacuum cleaner salesman finds himself caught up in the absurd but dangerous world of international espionage and inadvertently triggers a lethal series of events. Greene had the knack of anticipating historic flash-points and here gets in on the Cuban missile crisis a year or two before it happened.
(Tony Pratt - bwl 64 Spring 2012) |
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The Power and the Glory |
1930s Mexico, the suppression of the Catholic church is at his height, the hunt is on for the last remaining priest who is secretly criss-crossing the country, hidden by the villagers, saying Mass, giving absolution. The priest is a sinner with a penchant for whisky, plagued with doubts and fears yet knowing he has no choice but to follow this certain road to Calvary. Classic page-turning Graham Greene.
(Jenny Baker - bwl 91 Winter 2019) |
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Travels with My Aunt |
Henry, retired suburban bank manager, whose only interest is growing dahlias, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta at his Mother's funeral. Relationships are not as he assumed. Aunt Augusta - who is still 'a bit of a gal' - takes Henry under her wing. They travel to Brighton, Paris, Istanbul and finally Paraguay mixing all the way with an underworld far removed from his origins and he becomes part of this milieu. A period piece, non-P C to some, to be read with tongue in cheek!
(Chris Cozens - bwl 102 Autumn 2021) |
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