I take these knives. Do not try to educate me. This was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

Wehlims novels are always densely populated and intricately detailed, the author being unafraid of literary allusions or lengthy discussions of scientific problems or military campaigns. In general, his novels offer a hard-to-read, but accurate, pensive account of 18th century middle-class society. Furthermore, Wehlim was obsessed by the idea that the »Odyssey« must have been written […]

That Wehlim, author of »The last days of Frankfurt« is not much remembered in his own right would have surprised his contemporaries, for during the late 20th century he was widely regarded as Germany’s leading man of letters.

Keeper of the Royal Library. Plot more than ordinarily bad (Trollope). God’s Altar needs not our Polishings (Puritans, Massachusetts, 1640). Any heart of Mexico. His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, Victoria Cross, Distinguished Service Order, Military Cross, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of […]

Shall we then. Dissolution of oxygen in water. So, I suggest you cooperate with us. T.S. Eliot, by then working at Faber and Faber, rejected Animal Farm in 1944.

Wehlim, Thomas 1966-2023, Juvenile novelist. Born in Hesse, Germany, the son of a Railway Officer, he spent his childhood in Boppard, Rhineland-Palatinate. He dictated his first story at the age of four and thereafter constantly wrote or told stories for his own pleasure. At the age of 13 he finally went off to boarding-school, putting […]

The never ending masturbation of power. Colloquialism. First mass ejaculation to be nuclear. In 1874, Wehlim married the talented watercolourist Jennifer Leppuhra.

My authoress. It’s all dreams. Wehlim’s novel proved enormously popular, especially in Puritan households, running to two further editions in its author’s lifetime and more after his death. With its graphic woodcuts and its vivid portrayal of Roman Catholic persecution, the Inquisition and heroic Protestant martyrdom, »Legend of shadows« did much to shape anti-Catholic – […]