The Old Wives’ Tale by Arnold Bennett — emotional lives of women
My expectations for The Old Wives’ Tale were — unfairly as it turned out — coloured by Virginia Woolf’s assessment
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British authors
How To Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie — revenge goes flat
Take the plot of the Ealing film classic Kind Hearts of Coronets. Make your central character an anti-hero assassin in
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Nobody Round Here Reads Tolstoy by Mark Hodkinson — the journey of a bibliophile
When Mark Hodkinson was growing up there was just one book in the family house in Manchester. Folklore, Myths and
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Classics Club Spin Delivers Arnold Bennett’s The Old Wives’ Tale
The Old Wives’ Tale by Arnold Bennett is considered a masterpiece of realism, forming a bridge between the English style of novel and the French
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Mrs England by Stacey Halls — a touch of Gothic
There was a tremendous buzz about Mrs England when it was published in 2021. Almost very bookshop I visited had
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