Posts by Toby Guise
Friday, 17 May 2019
Lost Classic: The Light of Day, by Eric Ambler
Thriller writers are a competitive breed. Their task is too difficult willingly to acknowledge a debt to another – except..
By Toby Guise
Friday, 3 May 2019
Lost Classic - Simon Raven
Simon Raven was a novelist to whom memorable quotes stuck more readily than riches or renown. He famously had “the..
By Toby Guise
Friday, 19 April 2019
A meditation on Mayfair
The inscrutable facade of the old American Embassy on Grosvenor Square is finally crumbling. For 70 years its aquiline presence..
By Toby Guise
Wednesday, 17 April 2019
Notre Dame fire could inspire a moment of French national rebirth
The burning of Notre Dame felt like a world-historical moment. It was the scene that fiction could not invent. A..
By Toby Guise
Friday, 22 March 2019
A hymn to Bayswater
In Graham Greene’s 1935 short story, A Little Place Off The Edgware Road, a man – Craven – stalks the..
By Toby Guise
Friday, 20 July 2018
The ancient discipline of pilgrimage reimagined in the modern day
Contemplative travel may not be an obvious component of the modern world. Yet from Santiago de Compostella to the byways..
By Toby Guise
Friday, 15 June 2018
How Eton ruined The Fourth of June
In a country as famed for its idiosyncrasy as England, the Fourth of June still stands out. Eton College’s open..
By Toby Guise
Friday, 22 September 2017
Music on the Gulf of Poets: Suoni dal Golfo
The village of Lerici on Italy’s Ligurian coast has left an indelible mark on the Romantic imagination. Wagner came here...
By Toby Guise
Thursday, 14 September 2017
To understand the CST's anti-Semitism report, watch 'Meet the Parents'
This week has seen publication of the most detailed survey yet of contemporary attitudes towards the Jewish community in the..
By Toby Guise