History, sex and identity: exploring the legacy of Mary Renault
May 19, 2020
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Behind the books: an interview with Peter Harrington cataloguer Theodora Robinson
April 21, 2020
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“To console the afflicted, to add sunshine to daylight”: Wordsworth’s Daffodils
April 7, 2020
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A plague on all your books: great works written in isolation
March 23, 2020
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“Who is Sylvia, what is she, That all our scribes commend her?” Sylvia Beach and Shakespeare and Company
March 6, 2020
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The Town That Was Mad: Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood
February 14, 2020
By Lauren Hepburn Considering how long Dylan Thomas was cogitating the essence of Under Milk Wood (from 1931, at 17-years-old), it is paradoxically jarring to know how accelerated and chaotic its near-completion became at the ...
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Mary Westmacott, the real Agatha Christie
February 11, 2020
by Andy Stewart MacKay Thanks to her hugely successful detective fiction, and the many film and TV adaptations of her work, Agatha Christie has perhaps done more to define a particular kind of Englishness than ...
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Illustrated Inscriptions
December 12, 2019
While books inscribed by authors or illustrators cross our desks almost daily, more unusual are inscriptions which include an original illustration or pictorial signature. Some writers are known for their creative inscriptions: Ralph Steadman, famous ...
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