Critical Essay by Yolanta May
With The Last of the Country House Murders we leave Life behind and begin to play the Tennant games. There is a strong Napoleonic streak in Miss Tennant, which first dec...
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Critical Essay by Valentine Cunningham
Hotel de Dream is only hand-me-down Flann O'Brien, noticeably tireder than its master. The depressed gentlefolks of the grotty Westringham Hotel eagerly ...
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Critical Essay by Harriet Waugh
In Emma Tennant's new novel, Hotel de Dream, the forces of reality and imagination are let loose on each other, and intermingle destructively; but then, just as...
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Critical Essay by James Brockway
[Emma Tennant] has added another sample of her own brand of sci-fi fantasy to her first two, The Time of the Crack and The Last of the Country House Murders. Somewher...
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Critical Essay by Karl Miller
In Emma Tennant's The Bad Sister, gentlefolk are distressed when one of their number is put to death by his illegitimate daughter. Dependence on the fiction of th...
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Critical Essay by Yolanta May
