RANDOM JOTTINGS

A blog about music, sports, theatre and rants

Long time blogger just moved to wordpress. Love music, theatre, movies, sport (tennis and cricket) and cooking. Two great daughters, two great granddaughters.

Category: Madeleine Brent

  • Modesty Blaise – Fifty Years On

    "Before Buffy, before Charlie's Angels, before Purdy and Emma Peel there was Modesty Blaise". It is now fifty, yes fifty years since the first Modesty Blaise book was published which is a lowering thought as I remember them when Peter O'Donnell was first published. I read these as a teenager and, at the time, these…

  • Madeleine Brent and Peter O’Donnell

    When I worked for Camden libraries so long ago I hesitate to even contemplate it, I had the delight of the pick of the new books as they arrived and there were two authors who produced a book every year or so who I always looked out for. They were Peter O'Donnell and his Modesty…