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Name: Ann Morgan
Language: English
City: London
Country: GBR
Books: 52
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Lucky Jim Amis, Kinglsey
If you haven’t read Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis, I am jealous of you. I’m jealous because you have all the glittering sentences, the wit and vim and the sharp perceptions about human life to ...
Sense and Sensibility Austen, Jane
A leaner, more sinuous book than Pride and Prejudice , Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility has always struck me as the soberer, more mature work of the two. In fact, it was published first, ...
Pride and Prejudice Austen, Jane
It is a truth universally acknowledged that Pride and Prejudice is the best known and loved of Jane Austen’s seven published works. Yet with all the schmaltz and hype that surrounds recent ...
Emma Austen, Jane
Looking at Jane Austen’s oeuvre, it might be tempting to draw out the moral that flightiness does not pay. Time and again in the early works, characters with a tendency to frivolity, such as ...
Mansfield Park Austen, Jane
The sun went behind the clouds when Jane Austen set to work on Mansfield Park . Published only a year after Pride and Prejudice , in 1814, it ushers in a colder, more pragmatic world, where ...
Persuasion Austen, Jane
Published posthumously in 1818, Persuasion is perhaps the quietest of Austen’s works. Gales of passion, such as those stirred up within Marianne Dashwood or Catherine Morland, have no place ...
Northanger Abbey Austen, Jane
The solidity of the regency world which Jane Austen constructs around us in many of her works can make it easy to forget that the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century literary world played ...
Free Expression is No Offence Authors, Various (ed. Lisa Appignanesi)
In the first week of 2005, over four hundred writers signed a letter to the then UK Home Secretary, Charles Clarke, opposing the plan to make ‘the incitement of religious hatred’ a criminal ...
The Sea Banville, John
What connects the study of art, the death of a spouse after a battle with cancer, an eccentric old colonel, and childhood memories of holidays in a remote Irish seaside village? To be honest, I ...
The Separate Principle Bullock, Emily
In these troubled economic times, it’s difficult for many publishers to take risks. It’s particularly difficult for many in the book industry to put their weight (and money) behind new, ...
Big Babies Bywater, Michael
Every once in a while, a book comes along that captures something about the world as it is then, at that time, or at least as it seems to be. Michael Bywater's book Big Babies or: Why Can't We ...
How to Win Friends and Influence People Carnegie, Dale
Any literary critic worth his or her salt, will tell you that you can read a text on a number of levels. There is the ostensible message or thrust of the book, the authorial intention, which may ...
Youth Coetzee, J. M.
For anyone who ever dreamt that adulthood would be more than it turned out to be, JM Coetzee's taut masterpiece, Youth , is a must-read. Set against the background of the 1960s, the novel ...
The Well-Tempered Clavier Coles, William
I’ve been following the progress of independent publisher Legend Press with interest since the company was first founded back in 2005 and it seems to me that the publication of William Coles’ ...
The Woman in White Collins, Wilkie
The road to Hampstead in north London, the scene of hero Walter Hatright’s first chilling encounter with the woman in white, the title character of Wilkie Collins’ classic novel, has long ...
The God Delusion Dawkins, Richard
When literary historians look back on the first crop of books to spring up in the twenty-first century, The God Delusion will undoubtedly stand tall among them as one of the most influential ...
Moll Flanders Defoe, Daniel
Some time around the beginning of the eighteenth century, story-telling changed. It didn’t happen all at once – these things rarely do – but steadily and irrevocably narrative poems and ...
The Pickwick Papers Dickens, Charles
The sunniest of Charles Dickens’ novels, The Pickwick Papers is the book that launched the writer’s career. Serialised during 1836-37, it put the twenty-four year-old Dickens on the map as ...
Bleak House Dickens, Charles
Famous throughout the world for its grand, grinding opening, the meticulous and enthralling mechanism with which the narrative reaches out from the pages of the book to grasp readers and involve ...
The Virgin Suicides Eugenides, Jeffrey
One of the strangest books I have read in a long while, Jeffrey Eugenides’ The Virgin Suicides still plays on my mind. It’s something of a cult book, although it was somewhat eclipsed by the ...
Notes from an Exhibition Gale, Patrick
The link between artistic talent and mental illness has long been acknowledged, with publications such as 'The British Medical Journal' publishing some very interesting papers on theories about ...
Brighton Rock Greene, Graham
Arriving in 1930s Brighton to pose as the Kolley Kibber for the Daily Messenger 's holiday competition, the lonely and nervous Hale becomes aware that he is being stalked by a local gang. After ...
Two on a Tower Hardy, Thomas
One of the strangest and least-known of Thomas Hardy’s novels, Two on a Tower sets out the themes that would preoccupy and dog the author throughout the rest of his writing career. Chief among ...
The Mayor of Casterbridge Hardy, Thomas
Michael Henchard is a man to look up to. Self-made and determined, he has carved out a niche for himself in Casterbridge, the fictional west-country town that he came to with nothing but the ...
Jude the Obscure Hardy, Thomas
Critics disagree about what Thomas Hardy was attempting when he sat down to write his last novel, Jude the Obscure . For some, the story of the frustrated rise of the autodidact, Jude, who finds ...
Notes on a Scandal Heller, Zoe
When I first picked up a copy of Zoë Heller’s Notes on a Scandal , I did so with the feeling of indulging in a guilty pleasure. This was not the sort of book I would normally allow myself, I ...
For Whom the Bell Tolls Hemingway, Ernest
One of the ten books everyone should read before they die, Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls sweeps readers through the vast and craggy landscape of the human spirit. Set during ...
Death in the Afternoon Hemingway, Ernest
Having decided he wanted to be a writer, the young Ernest Hemingway set about garnering the experiences that would inform the great novels he would later write. One thing he felt he had to gain ...
A Moveable Feast Hemingway, Ernest
Books like this generally terrify me. The memoirs of some giant of the twentieth century literary scene, taking in the landscape of his early forays into greatness with tales aplenty of ...
Castaway Irvine, Lucy
If you’re seeking proof for the old adage that truth is stranger than fiction, you need look no further than Lucy Irvine’s Castaway . Born out of a madcap decision, on the writer’s part, to ...
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