This Week’s Reads
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This Week’s Read: The History Boys by Alan Bennett.
I’d always had a bit of an aversion to Alan Bennett, based on a host of preconceived notions – too cosy, too middle class, too middle aged, all a bit safe – but The History Boys has quite the reputation as a modern classic. So did it dispel my prejudices? To some extent. The play Continue reading
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This Week’s Reads: Boys by Ella Hickson; Men Should Weep by Ena Lamont Stewart
Boys by Ella Hickson (2012) Achieving an authentic and believable depiction of young students being young is a difficult task. As the sex, drugs and bin bags full of rubbish built up in the squalid shared kitchen setting I was prepared to have my inner Daily Mail reader harrumph and eye roll while muttering about Continue reading
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