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The Man Who . . .

Martin Edwards on the crime novels of Julian Symons

The only fan letter I ever wrote was to Julian Symons (1912–94). A polymath – poet, editor, biographer, historian, novelist and reviewer – his non-fiction books encompassed Dickens, Carlyle, Wyndham Lewis, the General Strike and the Gordon Relief Expedition, but what fascinated me were his crime novels and his critical insights into the genre.

The Flight of an Odd Duck

Michael Gorman on Julian Symons, Notes from Another Country

I have been reading a number of books on everyday life in Britain in the Second World War recently and have been on the lookout for more titles to read. My friend Jack Walsdorf, bookseller, book collector, librarian and author of, among other things, a bibliography of Julian Symons, told me of the latter’s Notes from Another Country (1972). Having obtained a copy from a second-hand bookseller in Galway, I read this slim volume in a couple of hours and with enormous enjoyment.

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