reading diary

Reading Diary: Decline of the Great House, a Poet of Suburbia and the Rare Breeds They Left Behind

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Reading Diary: Decline of the Great House, a Poet of Suburbia and the Rare Breeds They Left Behind – How twentieth century authors mourned and teased a vanishing England, with a gallery of living heritage animals for the nostalgic

Reading Diary: Dublin on the Page, Treaty Politics and the Long Memory of the Irish Novel

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Reading Diary: Dublin on the Page, Treaty Politics and the Long Memory of the Irish Novel – Why Irish writers made the twentieth century their own, how shared references hold a joke together and where Texas milk fits in

Reading Diary: A Year in Twentieth Century Books, a Lanarkshire Data Centre and the Last Chapter

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Reading Diary: A Year in Twentieth Century Books, a Lanarkshire Data Centre and the Last Chapter – Closing a reading year with a list, a small confession and a bookshelf that now includes beef, dairy and the occasional pig

Reading Diary: Plain English, Political Prose and the Perils of the Passive Voice

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Reading Diary: Plain English, Political Prose and the Perils of the Passive Voice – A week with the essay tradition of twentieth century Britain, a daily review habit and the grievances of farmers who dislike jargon

Reading Diary: Jeeves, Country Houses and the Fine Art of the Preposterous Aunt

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Reading Diary: Jeeves, Country Houses and the Fine Art of the Preposterous Aunt – A week among twentieth century comic novels, with a guide to professional joke-craft and a pastoral shelf for readers of manor-house novels