Tag: contemporary literature
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Sex with Strangers, Hampstead Theatre
Thursday 2nd February 2017
reviewNew American drama about literary ambition is neat, but not nearly disturbing en…
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The Night Manager
Wednesday 30th March 2016
blogText of the day: “Secrecy is the curse of our British system.”
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A Delicate Truth
Sunday 14th December 2014
blogText of the day: “What the gods and all reasonable humans fought in vain wasn’t …
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Life after Life
Wednesday 5th March 2014
blogText of the day: “Let’s face it, Ursula thought, despite a host of regulations, …
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John Cooper Powys on booksellers
Friday 16th August 2013
blogQuote of the day: “Every good bookseller is a multiple personality, containing a…
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The Sense of an Ending
Monday 20th August 2012
blogText of the day: “That’s one of the central problems of history, isn’t it, sir?”
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Roberto Bolano on London theatre
Sunday 12th July 2009
blogOne of my sad delights is seeing how British theatre is represented in novels an…
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