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The Real Thing – Booksellers, not retail sales assistants

March 29, 2013

Today’s Guardian reports that Amazon Marketplace is hiking its fees up for third-party traders. In a piece published in the same …

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Strange Boat – AF Harrold’s The Point of Inconvenience

March 24, 2013

On passing through Warminster on our routine pilgrimage to my granny’s house, I hoped for red lights and a short queue. …

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The child is grown, the dream is gone – Hugo Williams’ West End Final

March 2, 2013

Twice a day, I studied the cigarette stubber riveted to the melamine back of the bus seat. Ash threw the …

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The filth and the fury – Tony Harrison’s v.

February 25, 2013

As BBC Radio 4 broadcasted a 25th anniversary version of .v, read by Harrison himself, the event rekindled the media’s …

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Wish You Were Here – Tamar Yoseloff’s The City With Horns

February 17, 2013

It doesn’t take long to contract cultural flu in Rome. ‘That fountain’s by Bernini, you say? Show me one which …

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And God Created Woman – Stephanie Leal’s Metrophobia

February 4, 2013

As the Authorized Version of the Bible came off the press in 1611, the poet, Aemilia Lanyer, was not prepared …

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The whole of the moon – Where Rockets Burn Through, edited by Russell Jones

January 28, 2013

In the days when video games were packaged in cassette boxes, their lurid covers promised adolescents the sort of ultra-violence …

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Animal Lover – Eleanor Rees’ Eliza and the Bear

January 22, 2013

During the day, our cathedrals rarely feel like spiritual places: the turnstiles, shops and tea rooms in the narthex are …

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The last day of our acquaintance – Sharon Olds’ Stag’s Leap

January 14, 2013

Titian – Venus and Adonis (detail) – (Photo credit: Wikipedia) In his Venus and Adonis, Shakespeare’s goddess attempts to seduce the …

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Poetry by Heart

January 10, 2013

Poetry by Heart is a recitation competition which launches in British schools this month. The competition, funded in part by …

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