https://buckinghamshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/ALLENQ?QRY=GENBSOPAC%3A%20(LITERARY%20%2B%20CRITICISM)&QRYTEXT=Anywhere%3A%20Literary%20criticism%20(Keywords)&SETLVL=SET&SORTS=MAIN.CREATED_DATE.DESC%5DMAIN.CREATED_TIME.DESC&NRECS=20 Spydus Search Results en © 2022 Civica Pty Limited. All rights reserved. https://buckinghamshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=5291009 Part self-portrait, part-literary appreciation, this book tells how Alexander McCall Smith first came across W.H. Auden's work in the 1970s, while teaching law in Belfast. Part self-portrait, part-literary appreciation, this book tells how Alexander McCall Smith first came across W.H. Auden's work in the 1970s, while teaching law in Belfast.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2022.<br />152 pages ; 19 cm<br /><br />Burnham Community Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - 821.912 SMI - Available - 95100000417671<br /> https://buckinghamshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=5137842 Inspired by Jules Verne's hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard's Department of Comparative Literature and founder of Harvard's Institute for World Literature, set out to counter a pandemic's restrictions on travel by exploring eighty exceptional books from around the globe. Following a literary itinerary from London to Venice, Tehran and points beyond, and via authors from Woolf and Dante to Nobel prizewinners Orhan Pamuk, Wole Soyinka, Mo Yan and Olga Tokarczuk, he explores how these works have shaped our idea of the world, and the ways the world bleeds into literature. To chart the expansive landscape of world literature today, Damrosch explores how writers live in two very different worlds: the world of their personal experience, and the world of books that have enabled great writers to give shape and meaning to their lives. Inspired by Jules Verne's hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard's Department of Comparative Literature and founder of Harvard's Institute for World Literature, set out to counter a pandemic's restrictions on travel by exploring eighty exceptional books from around the globe. Following a literary itinerary from London to Venice, Tehran and points beyond, and via authors from Woolf and Dante to Nobel prizewinners Orhan Pamuk, Wole Soyinka, Mo Yan and Olga Tokarczuk, he explores how these works have shaped our idea of the world, and the ways the world bleeds into literature. To chart the expansive landscape of world literature today, Damrosch explores how writers live in two very different worlds: the world of their personal experience, and the world of books that have enabled great writers to give shape and meaning to their lives.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Damrosch, David<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Pelican, 2021.<br />512 pages ; 23 cm<br /><br />Farnham Common Community Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - 809 DAM - Available - 95100000344109<br /> https://buckinghamshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=5131414 From the bestselling author of The Familiars and The Foundling comes Stacey Halls's most compelling and ambitious novel to date. 'Something's not right here.' I was aware of Mr Booth's eyes on me, and he seemed to hold his breath. 'What do you mean?' 'In the house. With the family.' West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking after the children of Charles and Lilian England, a wealthy couple from a powerful dynasty of mill owners, she hopes it will be the fresh start she needs. But as she adapts to life at the isolated Hardcastle House, it becomes clear there's something not quite right about the beautiful, mysterious Mrs England. Distant and withdrawn, Lilian shows little interest in her children or charming husband, and is far from the 'angel of the house' Ruby was expecting. As the warm, vivacious Charles welcomes Ruby into the family, a series of strange events forces her to question everything she thought she knew. Ostracised by the servants and feeling increasingly uneasy, Ruby must face her demons in order to prevent history from repeating itself. After all, there's no such thing as the perfect family - and she should know. Simmering with slow-burning menace, Mrs England is a portrait of an Edwardian marriage, weaving an enthralling story of men and women, power and control, courage, truth and the very darkest deception. Set against the atmospheric West Yorkshire landscape, Stacey Halls' third novel proves her one of the most exciting and compelling new storytellers of our times. 'Mesmerising, entrancing, a spellbinding novel of emotion and mystery, a heroine caught in an impossible world of twists, turns and lies. Gripping to the very last page' Kate Williams 'Full of gothic menace, this Edwardian mystery is convincing and absolutely enthralling' Louise Hare, author of This Lovely City. From the bestselling author of The Familiars and The Foundling comes Stacey Halls's most compelling and ambitious novel to date. 'Something's not right here.' I was aware of Mr Booth's eyes on me, and he seemed to hold his breath. 'What do you mean?' 'In the house. With the family.' West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking after the children of Charles and Lilian England, a wealthy couple from a powerful dynasty of mill owners, she hopes it will be the fresh start she needs. But as she adapts to life at the isolated Hardcastle House, it becomes clear there's something not quite right about the beautiful, mysterious Mrs England. Distant and withdrawn, Lilian shows little interest in her children or charming husband, and is far from the 'angel of the house' Ruby was expecting. As the warm, vivacious Charles welcomes Ruby into the family, a series of strange events forces her to question everything she thought she knew. Ostracised by the servants and feeling increasingly uneasy, Ruby must face her demons in order to prevent history from repeating itself. After all, there's no such thing as the perfect family - and she should know. Simmering with slow-burning menace, Mrs England is a portrait of an Edwardian marriage, weaving an enthralling story of men and women, power and control, courage, truth and the very darkest deception. Set against the atmospheric West Yorkshire landscape, Stacey Halls' third novel proves her one of the most exciting and compelling new storytellers of our times. 'Mesmerising, entrancing, a spellbinding novel of emotion and mystery, a heroine caught in an impossible world of twists, turns and lies. Gripping to the very last page' Kate Williams 'Full of gothic menace, this Edwardian mystery is convincing and absolutely enthralling' Louise Hare, author of This Lovely City.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Halls, Stacey<br />Unabridged ed.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>[London] : Manilla Press, 2021.<br /><br />eLibrary - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - eAudiobook - Electronically available (Set: 21 Jun 2021) - Access resource<br /> https://buckinghamshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=5070212 Three years before he died, David Bowie made a list of the one hundred books that had transformed his life - a list that formed something akin to an autobiography. From 'Madame Bovary' to 'A Clockwork Orange', the 'Iliad' to the 'Beano', these were the publications that had fuelled his creativity and shaped who he was. In 'Bowie's Books', John O'Connell explores this list in the form of one hundred short essays, each offering a perspective on the man, performer and creator that is Bowie, his work as an artist and the era that he lived in. Three years before he died, David Bowie made a list of the one hundred books that had transformed his life - a list that formed something akin to an autobiography. From 'Madame Bovary' to 'A Clockwork Orange', the 'Iliad' to the 'Beano', these were the publications that had fuelled his creativity and shaped who he was. In 'Bowie's Books', John O'Connell explores this list in the form of one hundred short essays, each offering a perspective on the man, performer and creator that is Bowie, his work as an artist and the era that he lived in.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>O'Connell, John, 1972-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Bloomsbury, 2021.<br />288 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm<br /><br />Aylesbury Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - B BOW OCO - Available - 95100000334941<br /> https://buckinghamshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=5019041 Combining essays, poems and stories, this book details the colonial links of country houses, moorlands, woodlands, village pubs and graveyards. Fowler, who herself comes from a family of slave-owners, argues that Britain's cultural and economic legacy is not simply expressed by chinoiserie, statues, monuments, galleries, warehouses and stately homes. This is a shared history: Britons ancestors either profited from empire or were impoverished by it. The legacy of empire is expressed by potent language, literary culture and lasting ideas, not least about the countryside. 'Green Unpleasant Land' argues that, in response to recent advances in British imperial history, contemporary authors have reshaped the pastoral writing to break the powerful association between the between the countryside and Englishness. Combining essays, poems and stories, this book details the colonial links of country houses, moorlands, woodlands, village pubs and graveyards. Fowler, who herself comes from a family of slave-owners, argues that Britain's cultural and economic legacy is not simply expressed by chinoiserie, statues, monuments, galleries, warehouses and stately homes. This is a shared history: Britons ancestors either profited from empire or were impoverished by it. The legacy of empire is expressed by potent language, literary culture and lasting ideas, not least about the countryside. 'Green Unpleasant Land' argues that, in response to recent advances in British imperial history, contemporary authors have reshaped the pastoral writing to break the powerful association between the between the countryside and Englishness.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Fowler, Corinne<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Leeds, England : Peepal Tree Press Ltd., [2020]<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2020<br />324 pages ; 24 cm<br /><br />Amersham Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - 824.92 FOW - Available - 95100000350719<br /> https://buckinghamshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=4996255 From the very first book publication in October 1920 to the film release of Death on the Nile in October 2020, this investigation into Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot celebrates a century of probably the world's favourite fictional detective. This book tells his story decade-by-decade, exploring his appearances not only in the original novels, short stories and plays but also across stage, screen and radio productions. Poirot has had near-permanent presence in the public eye ever since the 1920 publication of The Mysterious Affair at Styles. From character development, publication history and private discussion concerning the original stories themselves, to early forays on to the stage and screen, the story of Poirot is as fascinating as it is enduring. Based on the author's original research, review excerpts and original Agatha Christie correspondence, Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the World is a lively and accessible history of the character, offering new information and helpful pieces of context, that will delight all Agatha Christie fans, from a new generation of readers to those already highly familiar with the canon. From the very first book publication in October 1920 to the film release of Death on the Nile in October 2020, this investigation into Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot celebrates a century of probably the world's favourite fictional detective. This book tells his story decade-by-decade, exploring his appearances not only in the original novels, short stories and plays but also across stage, screen and radio productions. Poirot has had near-permanent presence in the public eye ever since the 1920 publication of The Mysterious Affair at Styles. From character development, publication history and private discussion concerning the original stories themselves, to early forays on to the stage and screen, the story of Poirot is as fascinating as it is enduring. Based on the author's original research, review excerpts and original Agatha Christie correspondence, Poirot: The Greatest Detective in the World is a lively and accessible history of the character, offering new information and helpful pieces of context, that will delight all Agatha Christie fans, from a new generation of readers to those already highly familiar with the canon.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Aldridge, Mark<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>2020.<br />1 online resource<br /><br />eLibrary - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - eBook - Electronically available (Set: 10 Dec 2020) - Access resource<br /> https://buckinghamshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=4983214 What happened to UK cinema and TV when swinging London ended? 'Looking For A New England' covers the period 1975 to 1986, from Slade in Flame to Absolute Beginners. A carefully researched exploration of transgressive films, the career of David Bowie, dystopias, the Joan Collins oeuvre, black cinema, the origins and impact of punk music, political films, comedy, how Ireland and Scotland featured on our screens and the rise of Richard Branson and a new, commercial, mainstream. It describes over 100 film and TV productions in detail, together with their literary, social and musical influences during a time when profound changes shrank the size of the UK cinema industry. What happened to UK cinema and TV when swinging London ended? 'Looking For A New England' covers the period 1975 to 1986, from Slade in Flame to Absolute Beginners. A carefully researched exploration of transgressive films, the career of David Bowie, dystopias, the Joan Collins oeuvre, black cinema, the origins and impact of punk music, political films, comedy, how Ireland and Scotland featured on our screens and the rise of Richard Branson and a new, commercial, mainstream. It describes over 100 film and TV productions in detail, together with their literary, social and musical influences during a time when profound changes shrank the size of the UK cinema industry.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Matthews, Simon<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Harpenden : Oldcastle Books, 2021.<br />320 pages ; 24 cm<br /><br />Princes Risborough Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - 791.430941 MAT - Available - 95100000307047<br /> https://buckinghamshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=4963599 A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the Light In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, 'I have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be more brisk and breezy than scholarly.' This collection of twenty reviews, essays and pieces of memoir from the next three decades, tells the story of what happened next. Her subjects range far and wide: Robespierre and Danton, the Hite report, Saudi Arabia where she lived for four years in the 1980s, the Bulger case, John Osborne, the Virgin Mary as well as the pop icon Madonna, a brilliant examination of Helen Duncan, Britain's last witch. There are essays about Jane Boleyn, Charles Brandon, Christopher Marlowe and Margaret Pole, which display the astonishing insight into the Tudor mind we are familiar with from the bestselling Wolf Hall Trilogy. Her famous lecture, 'Royal Bodies', which caused a media frenzy, explores the place of royal women in society and our imagination. Here too are some of her LRB diaries, including her first meeting with her stepfather and a confrontation with a circus strongman. Constantly illuminating, always penetrating and often very funny, interleaved with letters and other ephemera gathered from the archive, Mantel Pieces is an irresistible selection from one of our greatest living writers. A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the Light In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, 'I have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be more brisk and breezy than scholarly.' This collection of twenty reviews, essays and pieces of memoir from the next three decades, tells the story of what happened next. Her subjects range far and wide: Robespierre and Danton, the Hite report, Saudi Arabia where she lived for four years in the 1980s, the Bulger case, John Osborne, the Virgin Mary as well as the pop icon Madonna, a brilliant examination of Helen Duncan, Britain's last witch. There are essays about Jane Boleyn, Charles Brandon, Christopher Marlowe and Margaret Pole, which display the astonishing insight into the Tudor mind we are familiar with from the bestselling Wolf Hall Trilogy. Her famous lecture, 'Royal Bodies', which caused a media frenzy, explores the place of royal women in society and our imagination. Here too are some of her LRB diaries, including her first meeting with her stepfather and a confrontation with a circus strongman. Constantly illuminating, always penetrating and often very funny, interleaved with letters and other ephemera gathered from the archive, Mantel Pieces is an irresistible selection from one of our greatest living writers.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Mantel, Hilary<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>[Place of publication not identified] : HarperCollins Publishers, 2020<br />1 online resource (1 text file)<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Available online: </span>Excerpt<br /><br />eLibrary - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - eBook - If you have a valid Buckinghamshire library card and PIN, please click here for access - Electronically available (Set: 14 Oct 2020) - EDZ0002354366BUCCS<br /> https://buckinghamshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=4941419 The most important Irish poet of the postwar era, Seamus Heaney rose to prominence as his native Northern Ireland descended into sectarian violence. A national figure at a time when nationality was deeply contested, Heaney also won international acclaim, culminating in the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. In this book, leading Irish historian and literary critic R.F. Foster gives an incisive and eloquent account of the poet and his work against the background of a changing Ireland. The most important Irish poet of the postwar era, Seamus Heaney rose to prominence as his native Northern Ireland descended into sectarian violence. A national figure at a time when nationality was deeply contested, Heaney also won international acclaim, culminating in the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. In this book, leading Irish historian and literary critic R.F. Foster gives an incisive and eloquent account of the poet and his work against the background of a changing Ireland.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Foster, R. F. (Robert Fitzroy), 1949-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2020.<br />248 pages ; 19 cm.<br />Writers on writers<br /><br />Beaconsfield Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - B HEA FOS - Available - 95100000344227<br /> https://buckinghamshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=4873030 Like many people the world over, Viv Groskop wishes she was a little more French. A writer, comedian, and journalist, Groskop studied the language obsessively starting at age 11, and spent every vacation in France, desperate to escape her Englishness and to have some French chic rub off on her. Groskop mixes literary history and memoir to explore how the classics of French literature can infuse our lives with joie de vivre and teach us how to say goodbye to sadness. From the frothy hedonism of Colette and the wit of Cyrano de Bergerac to the intoxicating universe of Marguerite Duras and the heady passions of Les Liaisons dangereuses, this is a love letter to great French writers. Like many people the world over, Viv Groskop wishes she was a little more French. A writer, comedian, and journalist, Groskop studied the language obsessively starting at age 11, and spent every vacation in France, desperate to escape her Englishness and to have some French chic rub off on her. Groskop mixes literary history and memoir to explore how the classics of French literature can infuse our lives with joie de vivre and teach us how to say goodbye to sadness. From the frothy hedonism of Colette and the wit of Cyrano de Bergerac to the intoxicating universe of Marguerite Duras and the heady passions of Les Liaisons dangereuses, this is a love letter to great French writers.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Groskop, Viv<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>New York : Abrams, 2020.<br />256 pages ; 21 cm<br /><br />High Wycombe Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - 840.9353 GRO - Available - 95100000301307<br /> https://buckinghamshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=4871135 The heritage of literature in the French language is rich, varied, and extensive in time and space. This introduction presents this lively literary world by focusing on texts (epics, novels, plays, poems, screenplays) that concern protagonists whose adventures and conflicts reveal shifts in literary and social practices. The heritage of literature in the French language is rich, varied, and extensive in time and space. This introduction presents this lively literary world by focusing on texts (epics, novels, plays, poems, screenplays) that concern protagonists whose adventures and conflicts reveal shifts in literary and social practices.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Lyons, John D., 1946-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.<br />1 online resource : ill.<br />Very short introductions<br /><br />eLibrary - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - eBook - 840.9 - If you have a valid Buckinghamshire library card and PIN, please click here for access - Electronically available (Set: 20 Apr 2020) - EDZ0002210865BUCCS<br /> https://buckinghamshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=4869683 In this dispassionate analysis of the act of murder, De Quincey's innovative, idiosyncratic artistic vision found space for gruesome reportage, satire, literary criticism and aesthetic judgements, in a work strewn with examples ranging from antiquity to his own time, including the urban serial killer John Williams. In this dispassionate analysis of the act of murder, De Quincey's innovative, idiosyncratic artistic vision found space for gruesome reportage, satire, literary criticism and aesthetic judgements, in a work strewn with examples ranging from antiquity to his own time, including the urban serial killer John Williams.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>De Quincey, Thomas, 1785-1859<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Richmond : Oneworld Classics, 2009.<br />1 online resource.<br />Oneworld classics<br /><br />eLibrary - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - eBook - 828.809 - If you have a valid Buckinghamshire library card and PIN, please click here for access - Electronically available (Set: 14 Apr 2020) - EDZ0000101491BUCCS<br /> https://buckinghamshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=4869672 This is a scholarly but highly accessible study of Scotland's world-renowned 'tartan noir' literary movement, examining a number of high profile best-selling crime writers, from William McIlvaney, Stuart McBride, Caro Rasmay and Ian Rankin to Val McDermid, Quintin Jardine, Louise Welsh, and many others. This is a scholarly but highly accessible study of Scotland's world-renowned 'tartan noir' literary movement, examining a number of high profile best-selling crime writers, from William McIlvaney, Stuart McBride, Caro Rasmay and Ian Rankin to Val McDermid, Quintin Jardine, Louise Welsh, and many others.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Wanner, Len<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Glasgow : Freight, 2015.<br />1 online resource : illustrations<br /><br />eLibrary - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - eBook - 823.0872009411 - If you have a valid Buckinghamshire library card and PIN, please click here for access - Electronically available (Set: 14 Apr 2020) - EDZ0001195591BUCCS<br /> https://buckinghamshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=4868216 Neville Cardus described how one majestic stroke-maker 'made music' and 'spread beauty' with his bat. Between two world wars, he became the laureate of cricket by doing the same with words. In The Great Romantic, award-winning author Duncan Hamilton demonstrates how Cardus changed sports journalism for ever. While popularising cricket - while appealing, in Cardus' words to people who 'didn't know a leg-break from the pavilion cat at Lord's'- he became a star in his own right with exquisite phrase-making, disdain for statistics and a penchant for literary and musical allusions. Among those who venerated Cardus were PG Wodehouse, John Arlott, Harold Pinter, JB Priestley and Don Bradman. However, behind the rhapsody in blue skies, green grass and colourful characters, this richly evocative biography finds that Cardus' mother was a prostitute, he never knew his father and he received negligible education. Infatuations with younger women ran parallel to a decidedly unromantic marriage. And, astonishingly, the supreme stylist's aversion to factual accuracy led to his reporting on matches he never attended. Yet Cardus also belied his impoverished origins to prosper in a second class-conscious profession, becoming a music critic of international renown. The Great Romantic uncovers the dark enigma within a golden age. Neville Cardus described how one majestic stroke-maker 'made music' and 'spread beauty' with his bat. Between two world wars, he became the laureate of cricket by doing the same with words. In The Great Romantic, award-winning author Duncan Hamilton demonstrates how Cardus changed sports journalism for ever. While popularising cricket - while appealing, in Cardus' words to people who 'didn't know a leg-break from the pavilion cat at Lord's'- he became a star in his own right with exquisite phrase-making, disdain for statistics and a penchant for literary and musical allusions. Among those who venerated Cardus were PG Wodehouse, John Arlott, Harold Pinter, JB Priestley and Don Bradman. However, behind the rhapsody in blue skies, green grass and colourful characters, this richly evocative biography finds that Cardus' mother was a prostitute, he never knew his father and he received negligible education. Infatuations with younger women ran parallel to a decidedly unromantic marriage. And, astonishingly, the supreme stylist's aversion to factual accuracy led to his reporting on matches he never attended. Yet Cardus also belied his impoverished origins to prosper in a second class-conscious profession, becoming a music critic of international renown. The Great Romantic uncovers the dark enigma within a golden age.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Hamilton, Duncan, 1958-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2020.<br />384 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm<br /><br />Aylesbury Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - B CAR HAM - Available - 95100000299000<br />Bourne End Community Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - B CAR HAM - Available - 95100000297864<br />High Wycombe Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - B CAR HAM - Available - 95100000297785<br /> https://buckinghamshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=4742408 Every two weeks for the past forty years, the London Review of Books has published between ten and twenty book reviews and essays interspersed with letters, poems and occasional short stories, growing from 'a small paper' - as the founding editor Karl Miller put it - into Europe's leading literary magazine. But behind this uncharacteristically celebratory tale are countless smaller, sharper stories. After all, it takes a lot of gossip, ingenuity, argument, obsessive attention to detail, persistence, parties, panic, hustle and continuous correspondence - with towering contributors and heroic subscribers alike - to make a reasonably interesting fortnightly paper. This book invites readers behind the scenes, reproducing a fascinating selection of artefacts and ephemera from the paper's archives, personal collections and forgotten filing cabinets. Every two weeks for the past forty years, the London Review of Books has published between ten and twenty book reviews and essays interspersed with letters, poems and occasional short stories, growing from 'a small paper' - as the founding editor Karl Miller put it - into Europe's leading literary magazine. But behind this uncharacteristically celebratory tale are countless smaller, sharper stories. After all, it takes a lot of gossip, ingenuity, argument, obsessive attention to detail, persistence, parties, panic, hustle and continuous correspondence - with towering contributors and heroic subscribers alike - to make a reasonably interesting fortnightly paper. This book invites readers behind the scenes, reproducing a fascinating selection of artefacts and ephemera from the paper's archives, personal collections and forgotten filing cabinets.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Faber & Faber Limited, 2019.<br />xii, 243 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 31 cm<br /><br />High Wycombe Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - 824.91408 LON - Available - 95100000255518<br /> https://buckinghamshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=4696641 A captivating journey through the hidden libraries of Jerusalem, where some of the world's most enduring ideas were put into words A captivating journey through the hidden libraries of Jerusalem, where some of the world's most enduring ideas were put into words In this enthralling book, Merav Mack and Benjamin Balint explore Jerusalem's libraries to tell the story of this city as a place where some of the world's most enduring ideas were put into words. The writers of Jerusalem, although renowned the world over, are not usually thought of as a distinct school; their stories as Jerusalemites have never before been woven into a single narrative. Nor have the stories of the custodians, past and present, who safeguard Jerusalem's literary legacies. By showing how Jerusalem has been imagined by its writers and shelved by its librarians, Mack and Balint tell the untold history of how the peoples of the book have populated the city with texts. In their hands, Jerusalem itself-perched between East and West, antiquity and modernity, violence and piety-comes alive as a kind of labyrinthine library. A captivating journey through the hidden libraries of Jerusalem, where some of the world's most enduring ideas were put into words A captivating journey through the hidden libraries of Jerusalem, where some of the world's most enduring ideas were put into words In this enthralling book, Merav Mack and Benjamin Balint explore Jerusalem's libraries to tell the story of this city as a place where some of the world's most enduring ideas were put into words. The writers of Jerusalem, although renowned the world over, are not usually thought of as a distinct school; their stories as Jerusalemites have never before been woven into a single narrative. Nor have the stories of the custodians, past and present, who safeguard Jerusalem's literary legacies. By showing how Jerusalem has been imagined by its writers and shelved by its librarians, Mack and Balint tell the untold history of how the peoples of the book have populated the city with texts. In their hands, Jerusalem itself-perched between East and West, antiquity and modernity, violence and piety-comes alive as a kind of labyrinthine library.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Mack, Merav<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>New Haven : Yale University Press, 2019.<br />272 pages : 11 color + 23 b-w illus. ; 24 cm<br /><br />Buckingham Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - 070.5 MAC - Available - 95100000237498<br /> https://buckinghamshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=4691088 -- -- New Statesman Longlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-FictionIn this passionate and deeply personal book, Adam Nicolson sets out to explain why these great ancient poems still have so much to say about what it is to be human, to love, lose, grow old and die.The Mighty Dead is a journey of history and discovery, sewn together by the oldest stories we have – the Iliad and the Odyssey, which emerged from a time before the Greeks became Greek. As nomadic tribes of the northern steppe, they clashed with the sophisticated cities of the eastern Mediterranean. These poems tell us how we became who we are.We witness a disputatious dinner in 19th-century Paris and Keats finding in Chapman’s Homer the inspiration to travel in the ‘realms of gold’. We go to Bosnia in the 1930s, with the god of Homer studies Milman Parry where oral poetry still thrived; to Spain to visit the possible site of Hades; to Troy, Ukraine, Syria and the islands of the Mediterranean; and to that most ancient of modern experiences, the open sea, in calm and storm.Reflecting on fathers and sons, men and women, on the necessity for love and the violence of warriors, on peace and war, youth and old-age, Homer is the deep voice of Europe, as dark as Mavrodaphne and as glowingly alive as anything that has ever been. -- -- New Statesman Longlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-FictionIn this passionate and deeply personal book, Adam Nicolson sets out to explain why these great ancient poems still have so much to say about what it is to be human, to love, lose, grow old and die.The Mighty Dead is a journey of history and discovery, sewn together by the oldest stories we have – the Iliad and the Odyssey, which emerged from a time before the Greeks became Greek. As nomadic tribes of the northern steppe, they clashed with the sophisticated cities of the eastern Mediterranean. These poems tell us how we became who we are.We witness a disputatious dinner in 19th-century Paris and Keats finding in Chapman’s Homer the inspiration to travel in the ‘realms of gold’. We go to Bosnia in the 1930s, with the god of Homer studies Milman Parry where oral poetry still thrived; to Spain to visit the possible site of Hades; to Troy, Ukraine, Syria and the islands of the Mediterranean; and to that most ancient of modern experiences, the open sea, in calm and storm.Reflecting on fathers and sons, men and women, on the necessity for love and the violence of warriors, on peace and war, youth and old-age, Homer is the deep voice of Europe, as dark as Mavrodaphne and as glowingly alive as anything that has ever been.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Nicolson, Adam<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>[S.l.] : HarperCollins Publishers, 2014.<br />1 online resource<br /><br />eLibrary - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - eBook - 883.01 - If you have a valid Buckinghamshire library card and PIN, please click here for access - Electronically available (Set: 02 Sep 2020) - EDZ0000243321BUCCS<br /> https://buckinghamshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=4691022 From a childhood of gothic proportions in a vicarage on the Welsh borders, through adolescence, leaving herself teetering on the brink of the 1960's, Lorna Sage vividly and wittily brings to life a vanished time and place and illuminates the lives of three generations of women.Lorna Sage’s memoir of childhood and adolescence is a brilliantly written bravura piece of work, which vividly and wickedly brings to life her eccentric family and somewhat bizarre upbringing in the small town of Hanmer, on the border between Wales and Shropshire.The period as well as the place is evoked with crystal clarity: from the 1940s, dominated for Lorna by her dissolute but charismatic vicar grandfather, through the 1950s, where the invention of fish fingers revolutionised the lives of housewives like Lorna’s mother, to the brink of the 1960s, where the community was shocked by Lorna’s pregnancy at 16, an event which her grandmother blamed on ‘the fiendish invention of sex’.Bad Blood is often extremely funny, and is at the same time a deeply intelligent insight by a unique literary stylist into the effect on three generations of women of their environment and their relationships. From a childhood of gothic proportions in a vicarage on the Welsh borders, through adolescence, leaving herself teetering on the brink of the 1960's, Lorna Sage vividly and wittily brings to life a vanished time and place and illuminates the lives of three generations of women.Lorna Sage’s memoir of childhood and adolescence is a brilliantly written bravura piece of work, which vividly and wickedly brings to life her eccentric family and somewhat bizarre upbringing in the small town of Hanmer, on the border between Wales and Shropshire.The period as well as the place is evoked with crystal clarity: from the 1940s, dominated for Lorna by her dissolute but charismatic vicar grandfather, through the 1950s, where the invention of fish fingers revolutionised the lives of housewives like Lorna’s mother, to the brink of the 1960s, where the community was shocked by Lorna’s pregnancy at 16, an event which her grandmother blamed on ‘the fiendish invention of sex’.Bad Blood is often extremely funny, and is at the same time a deeply intelligent insight by a unique literary stylist into the effect on three generations of women of their environment and their relationships.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Sage, Lorna<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>[S.l.] : HarperCollins Publishers, 2013.<br />1 online resource<br /><br />eLibrary - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - eBook - 942.9082092 - If you have a valid Buckinghamshire library card and PIN, please click here for access - Electronically available (Set: 20 May 2020) - EDZ0001487575BUCCS<br /> https://buckinghamshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=4576447 Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such bold and heart-stirring adventures, overcome myriad monstrous perils, or outwitted scheming vengeful gods, quite as stylishly and triumphantly as Greek heroes.In this companion to his bestselling Mythos, Stephen Fry brilliantly retells these dramatic, funny, tragic and timeless tales. Join Jason aboard the Argo as he quests for the Golden Fleece. See Atalanta - who was raised by bears - outrun any man before being tricked with golden apples. Witness wily Oedipus solve the riddle of the Sphinx and discover how Bellerophon captures the winged horse Pegasus to help him slay the monster Chimera.Filled with white-knuckle chases and battles, impossible puzzles and riddles, acts of base cowardice and real bravery, not to mention murders and selfless sacrifices, Heroes is the story of what we mortals are truly capable of - at our worst and our very best. Few mere mortals have ever embarked on such bold and heart-stirring adventures, overcome myriad monstrous perils, or outwitted scheming vengeful gods, quite as stylishly and triumphantly as Greek heroes.In this companion to his bestselling Mythos, Stephen Fry brilliantly retells these dramatic, funny, tragic and timeless tales. Join Jason aboard the Argo as he quests for the Golden Fleece. See Atalanta - who was raised by bears - outrun any man before being tricked with golden apples. Witness wily Oedipus solve the riddle of the Sphinx and discover how Bellerophon captures the winged horse Pegasus to help him slay the monster Chimera.Filled with white-knuckle chases and battles, impossible puzzles and riddles, acts of base cowardice and real bravery, not to mention murders and selfless sacrifices, Heroes is the story of what we mortals are truly capable of - at our worst and our very best.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Fry, Stephen<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>[Place of publication not identified] : Penguin, 2019<br />1 online resource (1 text file)<br />Stephen Fry’s Greek Myths ; 2<br /><br />eLibrary - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - eBook - 398.210938 - If you have a valid Buckinghamshire library card and PIN please click here for access - Electronically available (Set: 16 May 2019) - EDZ0002010357BUCCS<br /> https://buckinghamshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=4554579 A genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulate the human condition like no others. A writer who surpassed his contemporaries in vision, originality and literary mastery. Who wrote like an angel, putting it all so much better than anyone else. Is this Shakespeare? Well, sort of. But it doesn't really tell us the whole truth. So much of what we say about Shakespeare is either not true, or just not relevant, deflecting us from investigating the challenges of his inconsistencies and flaws. This new book thrives on revealing, not resolving, the ambiguities of Shakespeare's plays and their changing topicality. It introduces an intellectually, theatrically and ethically exciting writer who engages with intersectionality as much as with Ovid, with economics as much as poetry: who writes in strikingly modern ways about individual agency, privacy, politics, celebrity and sex. A genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulate the human condition like no others. A writer who surpassed his contemporaries in vision, originality and literary mastery. Who wrote like an angel, putting it all so much better than anyone else. Is this Shakespeare? Well, sort of. But it doesn't really tell us the whole truth. So much of what we say about Shakespeare is either not true, or just not relevant, deflecting us from investigating the challenges of his inconsistencies and flaws. This new book thrives on revealing, not resolving, the ambiguities of Shakespeare's plays and their changing topicality. It introduces an intellectually, theatrically and ethically exciting writer who engages with intersectionality as much as with Ovid, with economics as much as poetry: who writes in strikingly modern ways about individual agency, privacy, politics, celebrity and sex.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Smith, Emma (Emma Josephine)<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>UK : Pelican, 2019.<br />349 pages ; 23 cm.<br />Pelican books ; 30.<br /><br />Amersham Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - 822.33 SHA SMI - Available - 95100000236665<br />Beaconsfield Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - 822.33 - Onloan - Due: 14 May 2024 - 95100000239479<br />Marlow Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - 822.33 - Available - 95100000239457<br /> https://buckinghamshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=4513279 Following her father's death, Katharine Smyth turned to her favourite novel, Virginia Woolf's 'To the Lighthouse', as a way of making sense of her bereavement. Written out of a lifelong admiration for Woolf and her work, Katharine's story moves between the New England of her childhood and Woolf's Cornish coasts and Bloomsbury squares, addressing universal questions about family, loss and homecoming. But 'All the Lives We Ever Lived', which braids memoir, biography, and literary criticism, is also an intimate reading of one woman's talismanic text. Following her father's death, Katharine Smyth turned to her favourite novel, Virginia Woolf's 'To the Lighthouse', as a way of making sense of her bereavement. Written out of a lifelong admiration for Woolf and her work, Katharine's story moves between the New England of her childhood and Woolf's Cornish coasts and Bloomsbury squares, addressing universal questions about family, loss and homecoming. But 'All the Lives We Ever Lived', which braids memoir, biography, and literary criticism, is also an intimate reading of one woman's talismanic text.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Smyth, Katharine, 1981-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Atlantic Books, 2019.<br />308 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm<br /><br />Bucks Library Reserve Store - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - B SMY SMY - Available - 95100000221313<br /> https://buckinghamshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=4495564 An utterly compelling combination of literary detection and political revelation, 'Shadowplay' is the definitive expose of how Shakespeare lived through and understood the agonies of his time, and what he had to say about them. An utterly compelling combination of literary detection and political revelation, 'Shadowplay' is the definitive expose of how Shakespeare lived through and understood the agonies of his time, and what he had to say about them.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Asquith, Clare<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>New York : PublicAffairs, 2018.<br />368 pages<br /><br />Flackwell Heath Community Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - 822.33 ASQ - Available - 95100000307564<br /> https://buckinghamshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=4310241 Everybody knows about Sherlock Holmes, the unique literary character created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who has remained popular over the decades and is more appreciated than ever today. But what made this fictional character, dreamed up by a small-town English doctor back in the 1880s, into such a great success? This is the fascinating and exciting tale of the man and people who created the Holmes legend. Everybody knows about Sherlock Holmes, the unique literary character created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who has remained popular over the decades and is more appreciated than ever today. But what made this fictional character, dreamed up by a small-town English doctor back in the 1880s, into such a great success? This is the fascinating and exciting tale of the man and people who created the Holmes legend.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Boström, Mattias, 1971-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Head of Zeus, 2018.<br />597 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 23 cm<br /><br />Iver Heath Community Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - 823.912 BOS - Available - 154089406<br /> https://buckinghamshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=4201369 A collection of amigurumi characters to create, all of which are inspired by classic works of literature. From Moby Dick to Jay Gatsby, Ebenezer Scrooge and the White Rabbit these characters are easy to make and will delight all bookworms. What's the perfect gift for your friend who loves literature? How about an adorable crocheted Moby Dick? Or a delightfully miniature Elizabeth Bennet? Or an elegant and fuzzy Jay Gatsby? Whether you need some holiday decor (Ebenezer Scrooge!) or want to craft your own nursery decor (the White Rabbit), Literary Yarns is full of adorable amigurumi for book lovers of all ages. The easy-to-follow patterns are drawn 18 classic novels, plays, and poetry. Make them for your friends, decorate your house, or use them as pretty much the cutest action figures imaginable. The materials are readily available and the instructions are suitable for crafters with beginning crochet skills. A collection of amigurumi characters to create, all of which are inspired by classic works of literature. From Moby Dick to Jay Gatsby, Ebenezer Scrooge and the White Rabbit these characters are easy to make and will delight all bookworms. What's the perfect gift for your friend who loves literature? How about an adorable crocheted Moby Dick? Or a delightfully miniature Elizabeth Bennet? Or an elegant and fuzzy Jay Gatsby? Whether you need some holiday decor (Ebenezer Scrooge!) or want to craft your own nursery decor (the White Rabbit), Literary Yarns is full of adorable amigurumi for book lovers of all ages. The easy-to-follow patterns are drawn 18 classic novels, plays, and poetry. Make them for your friends, decorate your house, or use them as pretty much the cutest action figures imaginable. The materials are readily available and the instructions are suitable for crafters with beginning crochet skills.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Wang, Cindy<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Philadelphia : Quirk Books, 2017.<br />111 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm<br /><br />Iver Heath Community Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - 746.434 WAN - Available - 153824413<br /> https://buckinghamshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=4188786 The main aim of detective stories is to entertain, but the best cast a light on human behaviour and display both literary ambition and accomplishment. Even unpretentious detective stories, written for unashamedly commercial reasons, can give us clues to the past and give us insight into a long-vanished world that, for all its imperfections, continues to fascinate. This book, written by Martin Edwards, serves as a companion to the British Library's internationally acclaimed series of Crime Classics. The main aim of detective stories is to entertain, but the best cast a light on human behaviour and display both literary ambition and accomplishment. Even unpretentious detective stories, written for unashamedly commercial reasons, can give us clues to the past and give us insight into a long-vanished world that, for all its imperfections, continues to fascinate. This book, written by Martin Edwards, serves as a companion to the British Library's internationally acclaimed series of Crime Classics.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Edwards, Martin, 1955-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : British Library, 2017.<br />288 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm<br /><br />Aylesbury Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - 823.087209 EDW - Available - 153846632<br /> https://buckinghamshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=4174656 When Arthur Conan Doyle was a small, lonely boy at pre-prep Newington Academy in Edinburgh, a Frenchman named Eugene Chantrelle was engaged there to teach Modern Languages. Ten years later, he would be hanged for the murder of six young girls, and two boys from the Academy - and medical student Doyle would provide forensic evidence at the trial concerning the dismembered bodies. This extraordinary link between actual murder and the greatest detective story writer of all time is one of many. Christopher Sandford follows those links and draws out the connections between Conan Doyle's literary output and factual criminality, a pattern that will enthrall and surprise the legions of Sherlock fans. In a sense, Conan Doyle wanted to be Sherlock - to be a man who could bring order and justice to a terrible world. When Arthur Conan Doyle was a small, lonely boy at pre-prep Newington Academy in Edinburgh, a Frenchman named Eugene Chantrelle was engaged there to teach Modern Languages. Ten years later, he would be hanged for the murder of six young girls, and two boys from the Academy - and medical student Doyle would provide forensic evidence at the trial concerning the dismembered bodies. This extraordinary link between actual murder and the greatest detective story writer of all time is one of many. Christopher Sandford follows those links and draws out the connections between Conan Doyle's literary output and factual criminality, a pattern that will enthrall and surprise the legions of Sherlock fans. In a sense, Conan Doyle wanted to be Sherlock - to be a man who could bring order and justice to a terrible world.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Sandford, Christopher, 1956-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>Stroud, Gloucestershire : The History Press, 2017.<br />316 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm<br /><br />High Wycombe Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - B DOY SAN - Onloan - Due: 19 May 2024 - 153825266<br /> https://buckinghamshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=4159567 Almost everything we think we know about Jane Austen is wrong. Her novels don't confine themselves to grand houses and they were not written just for readers' enjoyment. She writes about serious subjects and her books are deeply subversive. We just don't read her properly - we haven't been reading her properly for 200 years. 'Jane Austen, The Secret Radical' puts that right. Austen expert Helena Kelly introduces the reader to a passionate woman living in an age of revolution; to a writer who used what was regarded as the lightest of literary genres, the novel, to grapple with the weightiest of subjects - feminism, slavery, abuse, the treatment of the poor, the power of the Church, even evolution - at a time, and in a place, when to write about such things directly was seen as akin to treason. Almost everything we think we know about Jane Austen is wrong. Her novels don't confine themselves to grand houses and they were not written just for readers' enjoyment. She writes about serious subjects and her books are deeply subversive. We just don't read her properly - we haven't been reading her properly for 200 years. 'Jane Austen, The Secret Radical' puts that right. Austen expert Helena Kelly introduces the reader to a passionate woman living in an age of revolution; to a writer who used what was regarded as the lightest of literary genres, the novel, to grapple with the weightiest of subjects - feminism, slavery, abuse, the treatment of the poor, the power of the Church, even evolution - at a time, and in a place, when to write about such things directly was seen as akin to treason.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Kelly, Helena, 1981-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Icon, 2017.<br />v, 337 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm<br /><br />Chalfont St Peter Community Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - 823.7 KEL - Available - 153750557<br />Long Crendon Community Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Donation: adult non fiction - 823.7 - This item cannot be reserved (Set: 12 Jul 2017) - 144422288<br /> https://buckinghamshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=4087350 What do we mean when we talk about 'taste'? This book explores the myriad influences - aesthetic, economic and technological - that have been brought to bear on English literary life in the past century and the way in which they have shaped our preferences. What do we mean when we talk about 'taste'? This book explores the myriad influences - aesthetic, economic and technological - that have been brought to bear on English literary life in the past century and the way in which they have shaped our preferences.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Taylor, D. J. (David John), 1960-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Vintage, [2016]<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>©2016<br />xxiii, 503 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm<br /><br />High Wycombe Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - 823.9109 TAY - Available - 153860028<br /> https://buckinghamshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=4064686 Almost everything we think we know about Jane Austen is wrong. Her novels don't confine themselves to grand houses and they were not written just for readers' enjoyment. She writes about serious subjects and her books are deeply subversive. We just don't read her properly - we haven't been reading her properly for 200 years. 'Jane Austen, The Secret Radical' puts that right. Austen expert Helena Kelly introduces the reader to a passionate woman living in an age of revolution; to a writer who used what was regarded as the lightest of literary genres, the novel, to grapple with the weightiest of subjects - feminism, slavery, abuse, the treatment of the poor, the power of the Church, even evolution - at a time, and in a place, when to write about such things directly was seen as akin to treason. Almost everything we think we know about Jane Austen is wrong. Her novels don't confine themselves to grand houses and they were not written just for readers' enjoyment. She writes about serious subjects and her books are deeply subversive. We just don't read her properly - we haven't been reading her properly for 200 years. 'Jane Austen, The Secret Radical' puts that right. Austen expert Helena Kelly introduces the reader to a passionate woman living in an age of revolution; to a writer who used what was regarded as the lightest of literary genres, the novel, to grapple with the weightiest of subjects - feminism, slavery, abuse, the treatment of the poor, the power of the Church, even evolution - at a time, and in a place, when to write about such things directly was seen as akin to treason.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Kelly, Helena, 1981-<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>London : Icon, 2016.<br />v, 327 pages ; 25 cm<br /><br />Beaconsfield Library - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - Adult non fiction - 823.7 KEL - Available - 153486584<br /> https://buckinghamshire.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spydus.exe/ENQ/WPAC/BIBENQ?SETLVL=&BRN=3881448 Available for the first time in English in Howard Curtis's translation, this collection of personal essays shows Izzo at his most contemplative and insightful. He writes beautifully about the city he loved, the sea to which he belonged, and the literary movement that made him famous. Available for the first time in English in Howard Curtis's translation, this collection of personal essays shows Izzo at his most contemplative and insightful. He writes beautifully about the city he loved, the sea to which he belonged, and the literary movement that made him famous.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Author: </span>Izzo, Jean-Claude<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Published: </span>New York : Europa, 2013.<br />1 online resource<br /><br />eLibrary - (Buckinghamshire libraries) - eBook - 844.914 - If you have a valid Buckinghamshire library card and PIN please click here for access - Electronically available (Set: 21 Aug 2015) - EDZ0001195842BUCCS<br />