There are also three reviews and one other talk relevant here that HW broadcast for the BBC, taken from the final scripts in the BBC Written Archives Centre, which were first published in the HWS's Pen and Plough: Further Broadcasts(1993 e-book 2014). These too have been included for completeness. HW could be somewhat idiosyncratic in his reviewing, and sometimes they reveal more about himself than the books under review.Īs a one-time regular contributor to the Eastern Daily Press, and as editor of The Adelphi, HW mentioned a number of books which are often short notices rather than reviews as such. Occasionally though, if a book or writer interested him enough, he would offer to write a review to help sales. More often than not, he would be contacted and asked if he would write a set number of words on a book or books – and invariably, given his reputation, these would be ‘country’ books, or books about animals. In common with most other writers, HW undertook book reviews for a number of periodicals and newspapers as a means of supplementing his income from royalties, though he was never a prolific reviewer.
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