Roy Peachey

Roy Peachey is an English teacher in Cambridge, UK. His first degree was in Modern History from Oxford University and he then went on to take an English degree with the Open University and an MA in Chinese Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His interests range from Chinese literature to Old English, from Children’s Literature to Contemporary Fiction. Roy has written articles for a number of Catholic publications including the Catholic Herald

• Move Over Greene, Waugh, and Belloc
• The Chinese PM Who Became a Catholic Priest

He also has a blog: The Catholic English Teacher. He is married and has one daughter.

Roy’s reviews:

• The Road by Cormac McCarthy
• All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
• Millions by Frank Cottrell Boyce
• A Whispered Name by William Brodrick
• The Birds of the Air by Alice Thomas Ellis
• Guardian Angel House by Kathy Clark
• The Misogynist by Piers Paul Read
• Awaiting Orders by Farrell O'Gorman
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Peculiar Crossroads: Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, and Catholic Vision in Postwar Southern Fiction by Farrell O'Gorman
• The Curse of the Darkling Mill by Otfried Preussler
• The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene
• Park by John Gray
• Symposium by Muriel Spark
• The Keys of Middle Earth: Discovering Medieval Literature through the Fiction of J.R.R. Tolkien
• Helena by Evelyn Waugh