Poetry Down the Tube
If you have ever been on the London Underground, at least since 1986, you’ll have seen them. Tucked up on […]
Read more →Literature Studies
Exploring Literature for A Level Study
A Peek into Pepys
While the famous diaries of Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) give us intriguing insight into the world of 17th century London, they […]
Read more →The Desai Dynasty
It’s quite impressive to be producing novels as the age of 87, but that is what Indian writer Anita Desai […]
Read more →Food for the Mind
How urgent is food for the mind? Keeping the brain alive is as important as sustaining the body. This has […]
Read more →Literature and Politics
It seems entirely appropriate that writers, engaging with the world around them are politically engaged. We don’t expect party politics,, […]
Read more →Alice Munro, Master of the Short Story
This blog was never meant to be a fortnightly obituary, but important writers keep shuffling off this mortal coil. This […]
Read more →Auster Farewell; Rushdie Survival
A giant of American letters, although arguably more popular in Europe, has died. Paul Auster made his mark with his […]
Read more →Snails in the Handbag
Andrew Scott’s performance as Ripley in the new Netflix series based on Patricia Highsmith’s novel has been making a lot […]
Read more →What Price Culture?
It’s happening again, of course. The latest dying-fish twitch of the UK government is to resume its attack on arts […]
Read more →The Resilience of Buchi Emecheta
Sometimes writers have their moment in the sun, and then attention slips elsewhere and they become neglected. One such writer […]
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