It was the title and lurid cover of The Rebel Angels that first drew my attention. I'm afraid I had not heard of the author Robertson Davies. The back of the book announced it was "A glittering extravaganza of wit, scatology, saturnalia, mysticism and erudite vaudeville." Although, at the time, I didn't actually know what scatology was I was familiar with the other terms and suspected that it might be my kind of book. And it was. Scatology The study of fecal excrement, as in medicine, paleontology, or biology. An obsession with excrement or excretory functions. The psychiatric study of such an obsession. Obscene language or ...  Read the complete review

Feel guilty when you want something "easy" to read ? Need something that isn't Jackie Collins at one end or Dosteyevsky at the other ? Give this a try. I particularly suggested this for the dooyoo site because I noticed there seemed to be a few John Irving fans around. Whilst the similarities between JI and Robertson Davies aren't immediately obvious, devotees of Garp, Owen Meany et al will find this very familiar territory. Robertson Davies writes wonderful novels of academia, the arts, history ancient and modern, magic, the "unseen world" and some beautifully drawn, all-too-human characters. Yet he does all this within superbly ...  Read the complete review