Mikhail Bulgakov is world renowned for the brilliant The Master and Margarita but if you go back to the start of his writing career you g...

Bulgakov is one of my favourite authors so it was with a pleasure to pick up his biography of Moliere. Produced beautifully by One World Cla...

So this biography written by one writer with a great deal of passion and care about another comes to an end. The role of the King is vital t...

Pushing it too far, with the backing of the King who seems to be happy to see Moliere score a few points as he goes down in flames, fortune ...

What starts to become clear about Moliere is just how talented he was not just in penning comedies that were box office hits but in terms of...

What you have to admire about Bulgakov and his treatment of this biography is the light touch. He manages to get from birth to 30 in as many...

Although this is very much a first impression, simply the introduction and the author's first chapter, it is worth blogging about. If yo...

The reviewing catch-up continues, and will do until next week, so here is another from the tail-end of last year. This is a strange book tha...

As might have become clear over the past year Mikhail Bulgakov is one of my favourite authors and this slime volume is a cracker. It works ...

Despite the madness of the theatre he play goes into rehearsal and the hero of the story gets closer to his moment of glory. But he has to s...

this is still not easy reading but unlike a Kafka novel, which it does resemble with its oddness, there is humour in here. The laughs come f...

The concept of having literary heroes is not something that I have had before but if I had to choose then Mikhail Bulgakov would be mine. H...

IF you ever get pushed on one of those questions about who is your favourite writer then the usual response is to fudge it and say that it d...

At points it is easy to fall into the trap of assuming this is some sort of farce focusing on the role the media and the politicians and the...

With his background in science and medicine Bulgakov confidently weaves a story that in many respects is similar to A Dog's Heart . Just...

The book ends with a twist but not the one you might have been expecting. The pressure starts to mount as the dog/human gets a job ridding t...

This is a great idea with the story entering Jekyll and Hyde territory as the professor swaps the brain of a man and testicles with the dog....

There is something that is wonderful about Russian literature when it is being delivered by someone with the skill of Bulgakov. The imaginat...

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov is a novel that is working on various different levels but regardless of that it is a book you...

For most people the name Mikhail Bulgakov is linked with the Master and Margarita , a book that is very different in style from The White Gu...