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The Paper Lovers by Gerard Woodward
Arnold has a happy life. He is a university lecturer and poet and is married to Polly who owns a shop where she makes paper and they run a small poetry press together. They have a lovely daughter Evelyn and everything seems to ring with domestic bliss. Continue reading The Paper Lovers by Gerard Woodward
Legoland by Gerard Woodward
Literature is full of ‘doubles’: characters who seem to move in tandem; or twins, whose familial bond and similarities are frequently employed for farcical effect. In Shakespeare’s ‘Twelfth Night’, for example, the sense of a clear identity becomes a tangled mess as Viola, in disguise as a boy called Cesario, falls in love with Duke Orsino, who loves Olivia; Viola has to deliver Orsino’s love letters to Olivia, who quickly falls in love with her as Cesario. Sebastian, Viola’s twin brother who she thought had died, enters on stage, and Olivia is soon smitten with him.
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Nobody is Ever Missing Review
A straightforward synopsis of Nobody is Ever Missing would read like this: a woman leaves her job and husband (and entire life) in Manhattan and buys a one-way ticket to New Zealand to go hitchhiking, without telling anyone.
Sounds a little bit like Gone Girl, doesn’t it?
The Turn of the Screw
A Fin de Siècle novella. By Henry James. One of my favourite authors. And favoured book length (viva la novella!) The story starts round the fire with people exchanging various ghost stories.
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Mother’s Day Gift Guide
Treat your mum this Mother’s Day with a thoughtful gift. What would she like?
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Etta and Otto and Russell and James Review
Etta has never seen the sea. So early one morning the 82 year old leaves her husband, Otto, and their farm in Canada with a note explaining that she is walking 2000 miles to the water and that she will try to remember to come back.