Almost two decades after her death in 2005, Alice Thomas Ellis’s novels and non-fiction works are available in paperback from Bloomsbury Academic, Virago and other publishers, yet her writings still await a certain academic recognition. Such is the conclusion of David Deavel in New Insights into Literature and Catholicism in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Cambridge Scholars, 2021), bemoaning a lack of academic articles about Ellis. Professor Deavel diagnoses this scholarly obliviousness of Ellis as “almost certainly” because of her “very public Catholic journalism”.