'Oh, I like all kinds of books - historical, semi-biography, well written. I liked "How Green was My Valley": and "All this and Heaven Too" ....I must say I can't read novels when I'm all upset. Now what have I read lately? Oh, I loved "Portrait of a Village", Brett Young: it was enchanting - "Royal Escape", "Spanish Bride", Georgette Heyer; Frankau's "Royal Regiment', oh and "Elizabeth of Bohemia". I loved that.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: anon Print: Book
'As the winter grew colder and colder I spent the deep trough of the early hours in a huddled heap beside the stove, drinking sample bottles of liqueur from Paris-Plage out of a tin egg-cup, and reading an impressive poem called "The City of Fear" by a certain Captain Gilbert Frankau, who had not then begun to dissipate his rather exciting talents upon the romances of cigar merchants:'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Vera Brittain Print: Book
'We reached his room about eleven. To do what? Not a blessed thing but to sit before a fire and talk and read again. He read me extracts from a book by Mr. Gilbert Frankau and proved to me what I could not have believed, that Mr. Frankau is a man of real high spirits which frequently almost achieve wit and humour.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Cyril Lionel Robert James Print: Book
'I've read so many descriptions in newspapers of the ruin and desolation caused in this war.
Famous literary men have tried their powers of description and All (with the possible exception
of Gilbert Frankau) have failed to convey the repulsiveness and awfulness of the scene. The
Ecole was one of these places - That's all!'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Lindsay Mackay Print: Unknown
