Garner’s Violent Creativity
Alan Garner has popped up a few times in the blog, especially when his novel Treacle Walker was shortlisted for […]
Read more →Literature Studies
Exploring Literature for A Level Study
Banville, James and Twentieth Century Novels
The Irish writer John Banville will be celebrating his 79th birthday on Monday. It is an appropriate time, then, for […]
Read more →Milton the Revolutionary
John Milton (1608-1674) certainly meant his writing to be influential in his own time. Living through the rebellion and Civil […]
Read more →Pap Trump
Remember when Donald Trump claimed he could do anything back in 2016? I could stand in the middle of Fifth […]
Read more →A Place to Write
This week Bernadine Evaristo announced that she would be lending out her cottage in Kent to fellow writers. Evaristo herself […]
Read more →Kingsolver’s Big Ideas
You may know Barbara Kingsolver for her epic novel The Poisonwood Bible, about missionaries in the Congo, Congo independence and […]
Read more →The History of Tracy Chevalier
Though not her first book, Tracy Chevalier shot to prominence with Girl with the Pearl Earring in 1999, a highly […]
Read more →The Brilliance of Ballard
I touched on JG Ballard four years ago, but he has come to our attention again as it is now […]
Read more →The Allure of Myth
There is a reason why myths and legends become myths and legends – they are great stories. They often have […]
Read more →In the Frame
It’s a hundred years since the birth of Janet Frame, the acclaimed New Zealand writer. She has attracted attention not […]
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