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Poet of the middling sort

30 June 2012
Edmund Spenser: A Life Andrew Hadfield

OUP, pp.576, 25, ISBN: 9780199591022

‘If you cn rd ths msg, you cn bcm a sec & gt a gd jb’. So ran the advertisement for the Brook Street Bureau employment agency. It was the… Read more

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Method in her magic

12 May 2012
Bring Up the Bodies Hilary Mantel

Fourth Estate, pp.411, 20

Bring Up the Bodies, as everybody knows, is the sequel to Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel’s fictional re-imagining of the life and times of Henry VIII’s most effective servant, Thomas Cromwell.… Read more

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King of spin

16 April 2011
Henry VIII David Loades

Amberley Publishing, pp.480, 25

Draw two two-inch triangles, tip to tip, one on top of the other. A little way down the left flank of the upper triangle, take a perpendicular line out to… Read more