2022 was a great reading year. It shall henceforth be known as the year I discovered Barbara Pym, Annie Proulx and Barbara Comyns about a million years after everyone else. The year I tried to get into Patricia Highsmith and Virginia Woolf and ultimately decided life was too short. And also the year I devoured Graham Greene and found all the Catholic Guilt felt oddly comforting.
Read MoreI think I was possibly a bit deluded after completing Agatha Christie in a single year, but I lost the run of myself last December and though I could manage two authors in 2022. I had intended to read all of Graham Greene AND all of Virginia Woolf.
Read MoreI’ve compiled a list of the most prevalent Greene features here so you can all play Graham Greene bingo. You’ll need a Greene novel or one of the many onscreen adaptations of his books. Watch or read along and each time you come across one of these features take a generous swig of single malt or pray a decade of the rosary, (or for added authenticity, do both and instantly succumb to a wave of guilt). A full house entitles you to a long weekend in a stiflingly hot country, only recently de-colonised.
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