Tag: England
The Queen of Romance, Marguerite Jervis: A Biography by Liz Jones
Bookclub discussing the biography, The Queen of Romance, by Liz Jones, about the mass-selling romance novelist Marguerite Jervis (1886-1964), who was …
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Rivers Joining
Freshwater mussels, coffee bean brown, cleaned by oyster catchers that jostle where the Wenning brunts the Lune. We gaze upstream at the Howgills, the …
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The Girl Before You
It’s the late Nineties at the campus university of a fictitious town in northern England. Kat fancies Richard who fancies Ruth who is seduced by Georg …
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Fade to Grey
When the history of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century literatures is written, there’ll be a paragraph on ‘the crime fiction boom’, or fad …
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Try the Wilderness First: Eric Gill and David Jones at Capel-y-Ffin
Borders are a favourite theme among literary and cultural critics. Usually they are presented as sites of interaction and exchange, ‘liminal’ spaces w …
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The First Giraffe in England
Spent her youth stooped in the dark at sea then lashed around a camel on the trek from Senaar to Cairo… Clive McWilliam was highly commended for the …
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The Financial Lives of the Poets
The reputation of Seamus Heaney was built at least partly on the way he dealt with the big issues of his time and place – the Troubles in Northern Ire …
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Tiffany Murray
NWR: Both of your previous novels take place close to the border between England and Wales. In a previous interview you’ve mentioned that when writing …
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A Radical English Identity?
Let’s start with two musical memories from university, neither of which, unusually, has anything to do with staying up way too late in one of Bristol’ …
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