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Helen Dunmore has been described as "first and last, a poet", but I discovered her through her ghost story, The Greatcoat . Set a...

I logged on to Facebook this morning To make a quick check on a posting. I've sat and I've scrolled For three hours, all told, W...

Source: Chariserin-Flickr Creative Commons French mime artist Marcel Marceau was born today. Here are a few lines about him. Marcel Marce...

Here's a little verse to celebrate the first day of spring. A blustery breeze and bright sun in the sky. Thus far escaped Covid....

Nadifa Mohamed's The Fortune Men was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and praised as an excellent example of historical fiction that e...

Charles Highway is a " chinless elitist and bratty whey-faced lordling ". He's the protagonist of Martin Amis's The Rache...

It was eighteen months after reading a review of Antigone Rising before I bought it. I'd forgotten what had drawn my attention to the ...