Maud Newton

2011: The Forrest Gump Year in Books

Is it really possible to turn a year-end literary review piece into yet another occasion to revisit the occluded...

Oddly, this is precisely what I dubbed the book when my mother’s family all crowed about how great it was.

[I watched the movie on the flight home...

Happy Lord Byron’s Birthday! The 224th this year. The book I’m working on is about him, which is how I know; but even if you haven’t been...

Sounds and smells of senior school

The girls on the Modern side were doing German and Spanish, which, when rehearsed between periods, made the...

Literary Oufits, v. 2: Skippy Dies by Paul Murray
v. 1: Smut by Alan Bennett

What do you mean you haven’t read Skippy...

The entrance to the Tower Subway - the first ‘tube’ line in the world. It ran under the Thames but...

The novelist and dramatist J.M. Barrie is best known as the creator...

Via Maud!

Plagued by a number of...

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