Author inc.Diary of an Accidental Witch series with @HonorCargillM
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On this four-week course from the University of Glasgow, you’ll delve into the dark world of the Tartan Noir genre. With each week focusing on a different literary feature, you’ll learn what distinguishes Scottish crime writing from its parallels elsewhere in the world.
Our new @UofGlasgow free MOOC course on 'Tartan Noir', & featuring some big names being interviewed! Well done @craigscrolls on pulling all together.
futurelearn.com/courses/tart…
@UofGCritStudies @IASSL_ScotLit @EnglishAssoc @Saltire_Society @UofGCSCS @LiamMcIlvanney
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Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
—Mark Twain—
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My latest venture is something completely new. It's a colouring book & interactive commentary on Homer's #Odyssey. Designed to get you and your kids off their devices and into #Classics! Thanks to @wmarybeard @GreekMythComix @britishmuseum & many others! amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASI…
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Can't wait to get back to it tomorrow. These are our class novels this year from Y3-6. For the first time, I'm not going to be reading it to my class - that stings!
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In the 19th century, painters and especially printmakers were fascinated by fashion cycles – but sculptors seem to have missed out on the fun, writes Tom Stammers
apollo-magazine.com/new-tast…
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The London Review Bookshop has reported £1m annual sales for the first time, thanks – in part – to its partnership with the restaurant St JOHN. 👇 ebx.sh/XmAfuL
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This exhibition in London (National Gallery / Nov 26 - April 27) is without a doubt one the most important events in years: all known portrait paintings by Jan van Eyck will feature in one exhibition!
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Open the door to Cherry Tree Lane. 👜✨
Our Folio book of P. L. Travers’s Mary Poppins brings the Banks children’s extraordinary adventures together with Sara Ogilvie’s joyful illustrations.
foliosociety.com/mary-poppin…
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The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.
—Arthur Miller—
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For thousands of years, people have assumed Homer calls Odysseus’ Ithaca was an island.
He doesn’t.
Two scholars have just published what I think is one of the most convincing arguments yet for the “true” location of Odysseus’ homeland.
And in doing so, they may have overturned one of the oldest assumptions in classical scholarship.
Read here: open.substack.com/pub/allanc…
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The founders of America were obsessed with the ancient Roman Republic.
I knew that before I started writing my latest essay, but I found that they drew on it in more ways than I'd expected.
During the struggle for independence, Rome provided:
1. Proof that a kingless state could win extraordinary power and glory (not assumed in the 18th century)
2. A repository of heroes to emulate.
Men like Cato, Brutus, and Cincinnatus offered models of virtue rooted in republicanism.
3. A symbol of political liberty and a rallying cry to revolution.
And once the war had been won, Rome became crucial to debates about how the United States should be governed. It offered:
4. An example of how different powers in a republic could be balanced.
5. Prior warning of the potential weak-points in a republican constitution.
6. A language and aesthetic of power that wasn't rooted in royal grandeur.
Perdita Cargill retweeted
This is not even sort of hard. You read the kid two books before naptime and bedtime every day, you go to the library with them once a week and let them pick out books, and you ask them about what they are reading once they get older.
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Heaven. City of food books.
Bologna opens a new library containing more than 32,000 books from Umberto Eco's private study - arranged exactly as he left them - a decade after his death.
wantedinmilan.com/news/umber…
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Very sad news. A brilliant writer and a wonderful woman x
At @WritersReview1 we mourn the loss of our friend Mary Hooper, author of fiction for children and young adults, in this tribute by @CeliaRees. Mary's many books include NEWES FROM THE DEAD, with which she reached adult readers too. reviewsbywriters.blogspot.co…
