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Diary
The week leading up to publication is a strange time for any author. You subject yourself to doing everything from…
A book for all ages
The genesis of The Road to Middlemarch was a fine article in the New Yorker about Rebecca Mead’s unsuccessful search…
Six of the best
When one notices the first symptoms of senile dementia (forgetting names, trying to remember the purpose of moving from one…
Are you sitting comfortably…
Robert Gore-Langton on Oxford’s new Story Museum, which aims to put stories into young lives deprived of books