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Voices: The Top 10: Underrated children’s books (part I)
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThis list started with a quotation from WH Auden: “There are no good books which are only for...
Solemn, reverent, and at times bizarre: How the BBC and ITV handled coverage of the Queen’s funeral
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe BBC’s Huw Edwards and ITV’s Tom Bradby and Julie Etchingham steered the viewing public through a...
Voices: After my dad died, I wanted my own personal Operation London Bridge
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoDuring the Queen’s funeral, the Archbishop of Canterbury reminded us that the royal family is a...
Alexander McCall Smith: ‘I’ve sold 30 million books – I have a room lined with them’
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 2 months agoAlexander McCall Smith, 75, is the author of the highly successful No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency...
32 Movies That Scream, "I Was An English Major"
BuzzFeed via Yahoo News· 2 years agoHello to the voracious readers, to the English literature majors, to the compulsive book buyers, and to those of you following IG poetry accounts. You...
Michael Alexander, poet and broadcaster whose Anglo-Saxon translations were used in Kenneth Clark’s...
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 6 months agoMichael Alexander, who has died aged 82, was a translator, poet, academic and broadcaster whose...
Green Day return with outdated pop punk, political posturing and flashes of maturity
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 4 months ago“She’s gonna bang her head like 1981,” Billie Joe Armstrong roars on 1981, a full charge punk belter...
Ted Hughes, 25 years on: Now, more than ever, the poet is the voice for our times
The Independent via Yahoo News· 7 months agoMCCRUM ON BOOKS: The poet laureate, who died a quarter of a century ago today, believed his...