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Book Review: Gangsters, Geezers & Mods // Stephen Pennell

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Book By My Bedside: English Pastoral // James Rebanks

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Louise Glück Awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature

  • October 8, 2020

The Revolutionary Muse

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Book Review: Shosha // Isaac Bashevis Singer

  • October 3, 2020

Little Women and the Prevailing Spirit of Jo March

  • October 2, 2020
Rhiannon Lewis Is First UK Author to Win Faulkner Prize

Rhiannon Lewis Is First UK Author to Win Faulkner Prize

Welsh author, Rhiannon Lewis, best known for her debut novel My Beautiful Imperial has become the first UK writer to win the prestigious William Faulkner Literary Prize for her new short story. The win was announced on 25th September from the William Faulkner Library, located at the Union County Heritage Museum in Mississippi. Typically, the […]

The Author Is Dead; Long Live The Reader

The Author Is Dead; Long Live The Reader

Any Literature student worth their salt will have Roland Barthes’ ‘The Death of the Author’ tucked into their back pocket, waiting for it to be pulled out at any moment: midway through an exam, when picked on in a seminar, or during a spell of writer’s block. For those of you who studied a more […]

Book Review: Leonard and Hungry Paul // Rónán Hession

Book Review: Leonard and Hungry Paul // Rónán Hession

Kindness is rarely looked upon with fondness when it comes to art. It is a view due for an assessment that kind is often deemed synonymous with boring. Rónán Hession’s debut novel Leonard and Hungry Paul is an extraordinary gentle wonder. Hession is perhaps better known as the Irish blues musician Mumblin’ Deaf Ro, based […]

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Book Review: Hunger // Roxane Gay

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The Revolutionary Muse

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Little Women and the Prevailing Spirit of Jo March

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The Author Is Dead; Long Live The Reader

September 28, 2020

Book By My Bedside: The Constant Rabbit // Jasper Fforde

September 25, 2020

Poem of the Week: This Is It // Leonard Cohen

September 24, 2020

Book By My Bedside: Sorry I’m Late I Didn’t Want To Come // Jessica Pan

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