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www.stuckinabook.com
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| | | | | Friends, I have exciting news! I'm going to be speaking at the Marlborough Literary Festival on 29 September - discussing all things British Library Women Writers. As you can imagine, I... | |
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katemacdonald.net
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| | | | | This biography took forever to read. It's dense, in the leisured style of the 1950s (reissued unrevised in the 1980s), and it is very odd to read such a long study of a life that is pretty nearly forgotten now. None of Walpole's novels are in print now, as far as I can see, though... | |
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katemacdonald.net
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| | | | | Does the world need a new biography of John Buchan? There have been three so far: a very thin and respectful one written a few years after his 1940 death, in an atmosphere of sincere grief and hagiography. Then there was Janet Adam Smith's 1965 biography, invited and facilitated by the family, which was the... | |
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anzlitlovers.com
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| | | I am on my second reading of Gerald Murnane's new book, A Million Windows - and I can't resist sharing this marvellous metaphor for poetry... Imagine, if you will, a 'house of fiction' harbouring many writers, who seem to have corralled themselves into different wings of the house. In one wing no one 'owns to'... | ||
