I’ve obtained the transcript of John Wain’s 1973 talk on BBC Radio in which he addresses the Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, then still being persecuted by the Soviet authorities. Read the post and the full text here
A new paperback and Kindle edition of John Wain’s iconic first novel with an Introduction by John Andrew Frederick
Recent mention in the Times Literary Supplement of John Wain winning the ‘Prix Memorable’ in France for the French translation of Strike The Father Dead has generated some nice tributes to him in their correspondence columns. Couple quoted below without permission of contributors, who I hope will not object.