Romantic Inspiration
You may be familiar with this poem, at least by reputation: I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on […]
Read more →Literature Studies
Exploring Literature for A Level Study
Category: prose
Farewell to Antony Sher
At last we near the end of the autumn term and head towards Christmas. I hope that Santa has been […]
Read more →Sarah Waters: More than Crime and Titillation
Harry Perrin wrote for us at the beginning of July this year, suggesting that there will always be an appropriate […]
Read more →Politics and Corruption
English politics has had a couple of interesting weeks after the government tried to get one of its MPs off […]
Read more →Wuthering to New Heights
Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights is an extraordinary novel. Published when its author was 29 years old, it has become the […]
Read more →A Noble Writer for the Nobel Prize
You may have heard that Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has just been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He is […]
Read more →A Summer’s Global Reading
This week I have asked students to write short introductions to books that they have found really striking from their […]
Read more →New Fiction and Theatre
There have been intriguing reports about two recently published novels. One of them is a dark fantasy. Piranesi is the […]
Read more →Future Context and Books, Books, Books
If you are reading this, you are probably studying English A Level – congratulations! It’s one of the most interesting, […]
Read more →Rehearsals, Performance and True Crime
I hope that many of you will have seen a production by the Royal Shakespeare Company, whether that is live […]
Read more →