Book 61: "Is Heathcliff a Murderer? Puzzles in 19th-Century Fiction" by John Sutherland

Of the novels featured, I have read "Vanity Fair" (loved it), "Wuthering Heights" (hated it), "Mansfield Park", "Emma", "Jane Eyre", "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde", "The Picture of Dorian Gray", and the Sherlock Homes story "The Adventure of the Speckled Band". I have also seen or heard others dramatised on TV or radio, but I think I would like to read more of them; Trollope's Palliser novels sound good.

The most interesting chapters were those that discussed the subtle clues about pregnancy and other unmentionable subjects, which Victorian readers would have picked up on, but that modern readers are unlikely to notice.

Book 62: "The Time Dweller" by Michael Moorcock

The Time Dweller
Escape from Evening
The Deep Fix
The Golden Barge
Wolf
Consuming Passion
The Ruins
The Pleasure Garden of Felipe Sagittarius
The Mountain

A book of nine short stories dating from 1963 to 1966. I own the novel "The Golden Barge", but I haven’t read the short story before, or any of the others in this book. My favourites were "The Pleasure Garden of Felipe Sagittarius" and "The Deep Fix".

I like the cover picture, which shows a man from the far-future Earth of the first two stories, riding a seal-beast and being menaced by a giant leech!