The author on feeling Thomas Hardy’s pain, being duped by Donna Tartt and how reading his sister’s copy of Trainspotting made him want to write
My earliest reading memory
I only realised how well I k…
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7 months ago
Residents in King Charles' model town hit out at 'arrogant' Duchy of Cornwall for planting trees that is spoiling their 'uninterrupted countryside views' ○
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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail
Homeowners on the edge of Poundbury, Dorset, paid a premium for their 'uninterrupted countryside views' of Thomas Hardy's Wessex.
8 months ago
Owners of historic pub The Silent Woman spark row after changing its 100-year-old name which was inspired by Thomas Hardy ⊕
The Pub's new owners -Hall & Woodhouse - have announced it will be renamed The Angel when it reopens next month following a £250,000 refit.
Madding crowd march over plans to build 3,750 homes on unspoilt countryside that inspired Thomas Hardy ○
More than 100 people walked defiantly from the centre of Dorchester in Dorset to the edge of the unspoilt landscape under threat.
9 months ago
Glorious English countryside beloved by Thomas Hardy could be 'wiped out' by concrete jungle amid bid to build thousands of homes ○
Developers have unveiled computer generated images that show how 950 acres of countryside that inspired the Victorian novelist will become a massive housing estate,
11 months ago
I’d lost my childhood love of reading – but rediscovered it when I set aside my iPhone | Adrian Chiles ○
You can keep your ebooks. There is no better way to engage with words than through a paperback
Everything changes so everything can stay the same. In the beginning I read a lot. I read paperback books…
12 months ago
Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes says Prince William's Duchy of Cornwall has 'no conscience' after go-ahead to build 100 houses next to Thomas Hardy's home ○
Lord Julian Fellowes is urging the royal estate to spare the 'sacred land' which is next to the Victorian novelist Thomas Hardy's historic home.
Life and work of Thomas Hardy to be performed at Stonehenge ○
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Readings and performances will be staged at the ‘misfortune of ruins’ that long fascinated the writer
The novelist and poet Thomas Hardy was fascinated by Stonehenge, using what he described as “the t…
16 months ago
CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Miss Austen on BBC1: Bonnets and bonfires... how Jane Austen's letters went up in smoke ○
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a story from The Daily Mail 💩 › The Daily Mail
When the novelist Thomas Hardy died, his widow Florence burned all his letters and notebooks in the grounds behind their Dorset home.
17 months ago
Time of the Child by Niall Williams – new life, new meaning ○
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
A baby is abandoned outside a church in this compelling tale of love and moral crisis in 1960s rural Ireland
With his new novel, Niall Williams has created perhaps the most successful work of his care…
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