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 […]
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Exploring Literature for A Level Study
Category: literary prizes
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 →Booker Time – and Time for Poetry
We are inching towards Booker time again, signalled by the publication of the nominations for the prize. Some have commented […]
Read more →Ensuring Women’s Voice Are Heard
A couple of weeks ago, Barbara Kingsolver was being celebrated for being the first person to win the Women’s Prize […]
Read more →Mourning and Celebration
The Death of Cormac McCarthy The literary world has been shaken by the death of American novelist Cormac McCarthy, whose […]
Read more →A Literary Grouse-Beater?
It has to be said that we do not often feature grouse-beaters on royal estates on these pages. We’ve not […]
Read more →Who Are They? Granta’s List
I bet you have heard of Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie and Kazuo Ishiguro. How about Iain Banks, Ben Okri, Kamila […]
Read more →Discovering Percival Everett
It is always good to discover a writer that you haven’t come across before. The winners of the Windham-Campbell Prizes […]
Read more →Struggling to Hold a Pen
Two British Asian writers have been in the news lately, both for unfortunate reasons. The first, of course, is Salman […]
Read more →Language as Weapon and Healing
I wrote over three years ago about how language is used politically and while the issue never goes away, it […]
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