A Sort of Newsletter

About the Newsletter

The Trust’s quarterly magazine, A Sort of Newsletter (ASON) is published each February, May, August and November. ASON is not intended to be an academic journal; there is something for everyone with an interest in Greene.

The quarterly usually features at least one substantial article. The February 2024 edition carried no fewer than three. Stuart and Angela Maye-Badbury wrote about Achill Island off the coast of Ireland where Greene stayed with his lover Catherine Walston while writing The Heart of the Matter. Zoeb Matin analysed the complex short story ‘Under the Garden’ while Tamas Molnar be-moaned the declining knowledge and interest in Greene in his native Hungary. May brought articles by Philip Hormbrey on the short story ‘The News in English’, by Mike Hill on the unfinished and unpublished novel Lucius and Ramon Rami-Porta on Chuchu (General Torrijos of Panama’s aid and interpreter during Greene’s visits there in the 1980s). The August edition had a re-print of a long and fascinating piece by Judith Adamson and Philip Stratford to mark the 75th anniversary of the release of the film The Third Man (1949). The November edition, traditionally, is devoted to an account of the recent festival especially for those unable to attend in person.

Sadly, various tributes were included during the course of the year to mark the passing of Yan Christensen, Francois Gallix and Ruben Moheno Verduzco.

A round-up of Greene-related news is always to be be found in the A Sort of Newsletter ‘Miscellany’, together with book, play or film reviews. The editor also sets an annual Greene Quiz in the February edition which inevitably proves both popular and challenging.

The annual Graham Greene International Festival each year in Berkhamsted, is the principal event in the Birthplace Trust’s calendar, as mentioned above. Naturally, it features prominently in the pages of the newsletter with news about the forthcoming speakers and events appearing in May and August issues. Therefore , if you are interested in Graham Greene, his life and his books and you are not currently a Friend of the Graham Greene Birthplace Trust, then you are urged to turn to the Members’ page on this website which gives all the details about joining and receiving A Sort of Newsletter once a quarter.

If you are interested in contributing to A Sort of Newsletter, please do not hesitate to contact the editor, Mike Hill at newslettereditor@grahamgreenebt.org  .