Results for: books tagged ‘Reading’
The Child that Books Built: Francis Spufford
What would you find if you went back and reread all of your favourite books from childhood? Francis Spufford discovers both delight and sadness, in this beautifully written memoir.The Harry ... More
Anonymity: John Mullan
Many of the great books of English literature were first published without their authors’ names upon them. But why did authors choose anonymity? And how did it excite the curiosity ... More
To Ireland, I: Paul Muldoon
To Ireland, I is a reissue of Paul Muldoon's brilliant debut as a critic and literary historian, in his Oxford Clarendon Lectures of 1998. The four lectures together take the ... More
The Uncommon Reader: Alan Bennett
The Uncommon Reader is none other than HM the Queen who drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into a mobile library parked at Buckingham Palace. She reads widely ... More