Sharp’s deadpan debut reads like a gen Z update on The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, playfully skewering modern literary tropes
The unnamed 28-year-old narrator of Avigayl Sharp’s debut novel teaches lit…
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Dilapidated farmhouse where Tony Martin shot and killed teenage burglar is cleared out - amid mystery over who now owns it ⊖⊖
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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail
Martin never returned to the property named Bleak House after he finished his prison sentence for the manslaughter of 16-year-old Fred Barras in 2003.
6 months ago
Anna Maxwell Martin looks back: ‘I was bullied a little bit, but it didn’t affect me because I was a happy weirdo’ ○
The actor on being an introverted extrovert, performing as a pearly queen, and becoming a single mother when her husband died
Born in Beverley, East Yorkshire, in 1977, Anna Maxwell Martin studied at …
7 months ago
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by JK Rowling audiobook review – an all-star outing ⊕⊕
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Cush Jumbo, Hugh Laurie and Matthew Macfadyen bring extra twinkle to Rowling’s magical tale
It has become tradition for Audible to bring out the big guns in the run-up to Christmas and deliver star-st…
15 months ago
‘He contains the whole of literature’: is Dickens better than Shakespeare? ○
After rereading the entire works of the great Victorian novelist during the pandemic, Peter Conrad became convinced – whisper it – that Dickens is an even greater writer than that other British liter…
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