Last night, Ellie Catton won the Man Booker Prize for 2013, becoming the youngest ever winner with her book ‘The Luminaries’. Weighing in at a massive 832 pages (the longest ever), it is the second book of a precocious author who, at 28 years old, is the youngest winner of the prestigious literary prize. ‘The […]
Starting Late
Recently, we stayed at a newly opened hotel in Ely, named ‘The Poets House’ (without the apostophe). When I asked why it was so-named the answer was that a notable writer had lived there previously, hence the connection. The writer in question was Sybil Marshall whose claim to fame was not as a poet, but […]
The Native Returns
We seem to be in the midst of a resurgence of interest in Thomas Hardy, both at home and abroad. The recent filming of a new version of ‘Far from the Madding Crowd’ in Dorset has certainly stirred local interest while even further abroad there have been signs of a renaissance of interest in the […]