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‘I slipped the book beneath my dressing-gown, nipped up the stairs and, once safely between the sheets, began to read while tucking into milk and Iced Gems . . .’ Laurence Scott is introduced to Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence in SF Issue 36 https://t.co/XuItzkr4Gu https://t.co/csPbcKWaD0

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‘The subtlety of these stories lies in the way Joyce sets the often unstable consciousness of his characters against the gritty background of a real city.’ Gordon Bowker on James Joyce’s Dubliners in Slightly Foxed Issue 17 https://t.co/qnWYclbQaJ https://t.co/V2j2XSHy4N

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The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath was published 59 years ago today under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. From the @FaberBooks archive: Watch Shirley Tucker discuss the design process behind her iconic 1960s cover of The Bell Jar http://www.faber.co.uk/journal/watch-shirley-tucker-on-the-bell-jar/

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‘We’re in the hands of a brilliant storyteller who loves and hates and laughs at his characters and at the world.’ Ysenda Maxtone Graham on Thackeray’s Vanity Fair, SF Issue 32 https://t.co/W3v2St8a5B https://t.co/0hLNlzsr0h

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‘From the fabled Atlantis and the New Atlantis, through More, Shakespeare, Bacon and the rest, there are islands of alienation, liberation, idealization, civilization and the destruction of civilization.’ Christopher Rush on Treasure Island, SF Issue 17 https://t.co/NRbK1Xt0nd https://t.co/966M7UFV95

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‘Hoarding string might seem a perverse way to come at the charm of Cranford, Elizabeth Gaskell’s much loved but somewhat under-valued series of stories from the early 1850s. But it is a telling image’ || @DrFelicityJames https://t.co/AKi3Q7RuR2 @EGaskell @EGaskellsHouse https://t.co/GLR8aH7HnH

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‘Once I started reading her I couldn’t stop. I read The Years, Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas in one tumultuous week. But it was The Waves that broke my heart.’ || Richard Holloway on Virginia Woolf, SF Issue 48 https://t.co/upUaDyK7mB https://t.co/2pxcoJwyme

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‘My grandmother’s idea of cooking was cracking open a raw egg and hurling the contents straight down her throat. She was a poet . . . who spent years translating Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poems into Scots’ || Diana Holman-Hunt, My Grandmothers & I https://t.co/U5bIE0fWGe https://t.co/xyMxfHBFmS

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‘It is one of those books that never fails to give me pleasure, even now I know it so well. There is so much about it to admire and enjoy . . . above all, the sheer quality of the writing.’ Adam Sisman on le Carré’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy in SF 53 https://t.co/gsnWkcy1xq https://t.co/T1vGSp2d3i

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@ClareDChambers @LRBbookshop @ViragoBooks ‘If Pym is often compared to Jane Austen for her wit, social comedy, miniature canvas and delight in human absurdity, then perhaps ​A Glass of Blessings may be compared to ​Emma . . . most impressive and perfectly polished.’ @ClareDChambers https://t.co/NvxonumPIV @ViragoBooks https://t.co/8Ww2VupIjb

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