Virginia Woolf found describing her childhood both an opportunity and a challenge.
- Senior Lecturer in English Literature, De Montfort University
From stories of Irish mothers to Shakespearean actors in the West Bank, this year’s shortlist is as varied as ever.
From a longlist of 12, six novels have been shortlisted for the 2023 Booker prize.
Queen Elizabeth II managed to claw back popular support after the PR disasters around her handing of Diana’s divorce from Prince Charles and her response when she died.
Be they ghosts or her mind playing tricks? The uncertainty is the draw of the 1898 classic The Turn of the Screw.
It might seem like nostalgic escapism, but the show has a revisionist impulse at its heart.
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