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March 19, 2023

The Master of Petersburg by J M Coetzee (1994)

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March 14, 2023

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (1915)

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March 12, 2023

Days of Reading by Marcel Proust (1871-1922)

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March 4, 2023

The Best Short Stories 2021

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February 20, 2023

‘Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self’ by Andrea Wulf (2022)

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February 19, 2023

The Liar’s Gospel by Naomi Alderman (2012)

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February 19, 2023

The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family, by Joshua Cohen (2021)

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February 5, 2023

Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf (2007)

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February 5, 2023

The Guest by Hwang Sok-Yong (2002)

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Resources

  • 0.0 – 10 Lesson Scheme of Work to Introduce Debating at Key Stage 3/4
  • 1.1 – Favourite Fiction – Year 7 Book Review
  • 1.2 – What of Fiction: Ghost Stories – A Year 7 Scheme of Work
  • 1.3 – The How of Fiction – A Year 8 Scheme of Work
  • 1.4 – The Why of Fiction – A Year 9 Scheme of Work
  • 2.1 – Narrative Poetry Scheme – Year 7
  • 2.2 – Year 8 – Sonnets Scheme of Work
  • 2.3 – Lyric Poetry Scheme of Work – Year 9
  • 2.4 – The Sound & Rhythm of Power & Conflict Poetry (AQA)
  • 2.5 – Unseen Poetry – Approaching Unseen Poetry for GCSE
  • 3.1 – Travel Writing – Year 7
  • 3.2 – Writing to Describe – Year 8
  • 3.3 – Writing: Dead Metaphors to Irony – Year 9
  • 3.4 – Think Like a Writer
  • 3.5 – How do we make Non-Fiction ‘Compelling’?
  • 4.1 – An introduction to Shakespeare and the Soliloquy
  • A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf
  • another 100 best novels in the world ever
  • Austen – What the Critics Say (New)
  • Books of the year 2009: What the writer’s were reading
  • Changing narrative perspectives in James Joyce’s The Dead
  • Chronology of English Literature – Shakespeare until today
  • Did human nature undergo a fundamental change “on or about December 1910”?
  • District & Circle by Seamus Heaney
  • Dubliners by James Joyce – How the stories work
  • Dubliners – Stories 5-14 – Key Examples of Free Indirect Style & Symbolism
  • Great Expectations by Charles Dickens: Social & Historical Context
  • Hamlet Literary Criticism
  • Jane Austen –Critical Responses
  • Jane Austen’s Juvenilia
  • Literary Criticism 101
  • Love in Literature
  • Science Fiction Must Reads
  • Sense & Sensibility – Context
  • Shakespeare Context
  • Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Context
  • short story by 2008 booker winner
  • T S Eliot – The Early Poems
  • The 100 ‘Finest’ Short Stories ever Written – Ranked
  • The 100 best books of the decade …and the 5 worst
  • The 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century
  • The 100 Best First Lines from Novels
  • The 1000 novels that everyone must read (according to the guardian)
  • The 27 Best Chekhov Short Stories
  • The 30 Novels to read before you leave school
  • The 50 best cult books
  • the 50 books that defined the decade
  • The 50 quick reads to impress university admissions tutors
  • The 50 Quintessentially American Novels
  • The 84 of the Best British Short Stories?
  • The A to Z of the best novels
  • The Art of Chekhov – a brief illustration
  • The Great Gatsby – The Critics
  • The History of Narrative Styles
  • The list – The 100 greatest novels of all time – The Observer
  • The Metaphysical Poets
  • the top ten books of all time?
  • The Waste Land – a reading
  • The Waste Land – Sources
  • Turgenev – The 7 Novels Ranked
  • Women in Lit – ‘The Rainbow’ (1915) & ‘Women in Love’ (1920) by DH Lawrence
  • Women in Lit – Daisy Miller by Henry James (1878)
  • Women in Lit – Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (1848)
  • Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway – Criticism
  • Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway – Context
  • yet another 100 best novels in the world ever

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