Literature

I was more than a little intrigued to discover whether the opening night of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men at the Theatre Royal, endlessly studied by bored fifteen year olds around the UK, would be able to breathe new life into the novella.  With the designers going to...

What do you usually give up for Lent? Chocolate? Carbs? Social media? This February, literature lover Lizzie attempts to take on the arts student’s ultimate weakness – the penchant for buying books. For forty days and forty nights Lizzie will be going cold turkey: no late night Amazon purchases,...

It cannot be denied; there is something inherently romantic about the idea of sitting outside the Trent Building in the sunshine with a latte and a copy of Jane Eyre. While this is probably the stereotype most people have of English students, when the reality is usually pulling an...

With February 14th fast approaching this weekend, we can turn our eyes to the masters of love: authors, poets and playwrights, to give us the best lines for our Valentine’s Cards. Although these lines aren’t the most famous in literature, for me, these five quotes stood out as some...

Beatrix Potter is one of the most beloved children’s authors of all time, with her characters being an integral part of many people’s childhood memories. It is no surprise, then, that publisher Jo Hanks said she and other lovers of Potter’s fiction have ‘something truly phenomenal on our hands’...

Tuesday 26th January 2016 saw J.K. Rowling awarded the PEN award of Free-Speech, which is given each year to an author that embodies the American organisation’s ideology of a free and just world. Particularly honoured for her charities Volant and Lumos, J.K. Rowling has aided institutionalized children, poverty and...

The Pulitzer Prize, The Man Booker Prize, The Whitbread (Costa) Book Awards, The National Book Award…these are just to name a small few of the seemingly never ending list of book awards. As I took my weekly trip to Waterstones I was greeted by the harrowing sight of the...