In this week’s Dispatches from The Secret Library, Dr Oliver Tearle examines a famous phrase derived from Shakespeare The old line about Hamlet, that it’s ‘too full of quotations’, wittily sums up the play’s influence on not just English literature but on the everyday language we use. Many of us […] The post The True Meaning of the Phrase ‘More Honoured in the Breach than the Observance’ appeared first on Interesting Literature. Continue reading at 'Interesting Literature'
[ Interesting Literature | 2020-05-29 14:00:47 UTC ]
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CrimeCon is partnering with Bonnier Books UK to launch its first true crime weekend in London next summer, featuring Lynda La Plante, Christopher Berry-Dee, Wensley Clarkson and Carl Chinn. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-29 03:56:00 UTC ]
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Chen writes about more expansive ideas of connection in a world that values romantic partnerships above all others. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-09-28 10:46:26 UTC ]
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Sphere has acquired a book in which the author tells the story of her own investigation into the long-unsolved murder of her stepsister. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-17 23:03:19 UTC ]
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Nunez’s first novel since winning the National Book Award follows a woman and her terminally ill friend. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-09-16 16:32:08 UTC ]
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Miller’s skillfulness turns a familiar plot into an original story that reflects the real-life complexity of relationships. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-09-09 12:00:00 UTC ]
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The Fairfax company will continue providing its digital health platform for the All of Us research program, an NIH initiative building a database of more than 1 million patients. Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal
[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2020-09-02 11:30:00 UTC ]
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Ex-White House protocol chief Capricia Penavic Marshall on diplomatic details that matter. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-08-21 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Few science fiction writers have their vision of the future tested immediately upon publication. But that’s what happened to Ilze Hugo, whose novel about a mysterious epidemic, The Down Days, debuted in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic. “To be published right in the middle of all this is the... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-08-07 08:48:58 UTC ]
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Mary Ellen Peacock Meredith may not have been famous, but Diane Johnson’s 1972 biography of the tragic figure is well worth your time. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-07-22 16:38:39 UTC ]
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Canada’s presentation as Guest of Honour at Frankfurt Book Fair has been postponed until 2021, owing to the changed conditions caused by Covid-19. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-06 20:19:59 UTC ]
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Children's independent Fisherton Press will publish We Love the NHS on July 5th 2020, the 72nd birthday of the NHS. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-02 06:40:02 UTC ]
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Adjmi was raised in a house where he had no choice but to fit in, which means he had no choice but to lie. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-06-30 14:49:16 UTC ]
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The Laurence Stern Fellowship, a long-standing programme of the Washington Post, giving young British journalists experience of working in its newsroom each summer, is being renamed in honour of agent Felicity Bryan as the Stern-Bryan Fellowship. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-15 02:32:04 UTC ]
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Suzy Krause’s Sorry I Missed You (Lake Union) posted straight to the top of the Bookstat e-book chart for the week ending 6th June. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-10 20:33:24 UTC ]
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News Corp columnist accuses Australian Press Council of sabotaging debate and doubles down by repeating slurs about Thunberg’s autism Andrew Bolt’s mocking column about Greta Thunberg, which referred to the young climate campaigner as “deeply disturbed” and “freakishly influential”, breached... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-06-04 03:24:39 UTC ]
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The Nobel laureate’s novels sit uncooperatively in a zone between allegory and parable, refuting interpretation. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-05-30 13:00:00 UTC ]
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In their new novel, 'The Death of Vivek Oji,' Emezi celebrates the life, and mourns the death, of a queer boy in Nigeria. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-05-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
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John Kaag finds wisdom in William James’s philosophy of free will and consciousness. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-05-08 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Author Juno Dawson has won the Visionary Honours Book of the Year for Proud, published by Little Tiger Press. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-07 10:59:40 UTC ]
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Lauren James answers our questions about her novel set in a future version of London where humanity has been almost wiped out by a pandemic, The Quiet at the End of the World (Walker Books), which has been shortlisted for the YA Book Prize 2020. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-05-06 17:57:09 UTC ]
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