Julian Symons

Asked for a short story by Julian Symons in 1978, for a volume in aid of the Detection Club and specified to include trial by jury, she turned in the brilliant Morepork (titled from the...

Anticipation about the latest MA resulted in a reprint even before publication date. 10,000 copies sold within two weeks. Reviews varied from lukewarm to downright negative, which MA attributed to her position as an...

Reviews were disappointing. The Observer's majestic dismissal was not out of tune with others: this novel spectacularly fails to convince that there is hard imaginative currency supporting its considerable literary pretension. Belated praise...

NB 's second book, The Odd Flamingo, 1954, another crime novel, has been described by Julian Symons as a sinister fairy tale rather than of grubby actuality. He included The Odd Flamingo in his...

Again reviewers were highly complimentary. Julian Symons in the Sunday Times praised the care with which EF had shaped her book, and her fine sense of the way in which people . . . think...

Julian Symons in the TLS called this an extraordinary compound of personal stories, tall stories, and good or bad jokes, which takes its colour—and a vivid colour too—from Miss Hamnett's personality.

The Daughter of Time was extremely well received when it was first published, and it remains Tey's best-known work. Crime writer Anthony Boucher gave it high praise for originality: The result is a real bouleversement...

The TLS published two notices of contradictory tone in a single issue. The first reviewer, from the Manchester Guardian, found the collection brilliantly successful and EW possessed of a remarkable power of creating a...

More than her previous collection, this volume established AM 's reputation. In Britain she was hailed by Julian Symons as interesting . . . remarkable, and (along with Margaret Atwood ) as distinctly Canadian...