The Booker-shortlisted novelist on the seismic effect of Sigrid Nunez, and wanting to write like Virginia Woolf
My earliest reading memory
Asking my mom if she could stop reading my bedtime book to m…
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Brits think Father Christmas is a lefty who would vote GREEN - and Dickens' festive miser Ebeneezer Scrooge would vote Reform, poll finds ⊕
Santa was seen as most likely to back Zack Polanski's party if he backs anyone at the next election, in a poll by YouGov.
3 months ago
Christmas Karma review – Dickens adaptation has as much Yuletide spirit as a dead rat in the eggnog ⊖
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Gurinder Chadha’s leaden update of the hardy seasonal chestnut with Kunal Nayyar is joyless and nausea-inducing
Keen though I always am to indulge any and every new riff on Dickens’s A Christmas Carol…
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…
5 months ago
Celebrated, imprisoned, reviled, rebuilt: Fernand Pouillon, the lost architect of France ○
From designing enormous postwar housing projects to escaping from prison using a rope, Pouillon’s life had high drama. A new documentary charts the extraordinary rise, fall – and rise again – of Fran…
6 months ago
Neil Kinnock calls for government to scrap two-child cap on benefits ○
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Former Labour leader says rising UK poverty ‘would make Dickens furious’ and calls for wealth tax to help reverse it
Labour must scrap the two-child cap on benefits to lift children out of poverty, th…
7 months ago
Miriam Margolyes: ‘The closest I’ve come to death? When the media reported my imminent demise’ ○
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The actor on disappointing her mother, the only time she will tell a lie, and a terrible spat with Glenda Jackson
Born in Oxford, Miriam Margolyes, 84, began acting at Cambridge University. In 1994, s…
‘The damage is terrifying’: Barbara Kingsolver on Trump, rural America and the recovery home funded by her hit novel ○
Demon Copperhead, the author’s retelling of Dickens during Virginia’s opioid crisis, was a global success. Now she has used royalties from the novel to open a recovery residence
In the spotless kitche…
8 months ago
Charles Dickens’s ‘sliding doors’ moment: how a cold turned an aspiring thespian into a writer ○
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An exhibition explores the authors’ love of theatre, highlighting the dramatic impact of his works
As a sliding doors moment, it leads to arguably one of the greatest “what if?” questions in literary…
9 months ago
Think you know a lot about Dickens? Then who’s this Herbert character? | Zoe Williams ○
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This minor figure from Great Expectations has sown panic at the GCSEs. Be honest: have you even heard of him?
It’s unwise to drill too deeply into the exact questions that come up in a GCSE paper. You…