Is it 1925 Club season already? Thanks to Simon and Karen as ever for what will be a stimulating and (on this blog, at any rate) occasionally weird week. One reason I wanted to read Virginia Woolf&…| Somewhere Boy
Anna of the Five Towns was the first of Arnold Bennett’s novels to be set in the pottery towns of Staffordshire. Through six novels published between 1902 and 1918 he gives a realistic picture of life, industry, religion and love in England’s industrial heartland at the turn of the 20th century. It’s rather depressing but […]| BookerTalk