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Bright Young Things?
Writing nearly a century after the publication of Josephine Tey’s Kif, (last blog), Kate Atkinson shifts the focus in her recent novel...
Aug 30, 2023


The Lost Generation? The plight of a veteran boy soldier in the 1920s
I'm fascinated by the way that the First World War was understood in the 1920s by the people who had lived through it. The way we think...
Aug 7, 2023


When the Power of Language is lost…
I was given Lean Fall Stand by Jon McGregor by my friend Annie as a birthday present. She chose it because the novel begins in...
Jul 15, 2023
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