April 30, 2020 Puzzles, constraints and cryptograms: An Oulipo beginner’s primer By Karen Langley Although you may never have heard the name of the literary group Oulipo, there’s a good chance you might actually have…
September 25, 2018 Banned Books Week – The Russians By Karen Langley “The important task of literature is to free man, not to censor him.” (Anais Nin) The banning of books is an…
August 3, 2017 Anthony Burgess Centenary – a Reading List By Rob Spence Anthony Burgess, whose centenary is celebrated this year, remarked ruefully on more than one occasion that he produced as many novels…
October 4, 2016 Woolfalong Written by Ali Hope My relationship with Virginia Woolf had a discouraging start when I first read To the Lighthouse in my very early twenties. It…
June 9, 2016 ‘South of the River’: A Reading List Compiled by Annabel The story goes that London cabbies won’t go ‘South of the River’ after dark – I have no proof of this,…
January 26, 2016 Reading Manchester By Rob Spence After the recent Budget, the Treasury published a document outlining the government’s plans for regional spending. In among the references to…
July 10, 2014 Never Mind the World Cup, Let’s Read Around Brazil! A survey of some Brazilian novels in translation by Annabel Gaskell, with help from Stuart Allen I don’t know about you, but I’m distinctly…
July 2, 2014 Reading Cornwall Written by Jane Carter It’s holiday reading time, so we asked a Cornish blogger to look at some of her favourite books set in…
April 10, 2014 Zola – An Introduction To His Books By Victoria Best The OUP’s decision to publish some of the novels of Émile Zola that have not been in translation for more than…
