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 […]
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Exploring Literature for A Level Study
Category: prose
Updating the Royal Society of Literature
The Royal Society of Literature has always seen as a rather grand institution, which is not really surprising. ‘Royal Society’ […]
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 →Atwood’s Latest is True to Form
There is always interest when Margaret Atwood publishes, and has been since she launched The Edible Woman in 1969, an […]
Read more →Censorship or Sensitivity?
‘Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me.’ It’s a childhood rhyme which children were […]
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 […]
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