Orbital’ is ‘more about Earth than about space
British author says space inspired Booker Prize-winning novel
A lifelong fascination with outer space inspired British author Samantha Harvey to write her novel "Orbital", which this week won the prestigious Booker Prize.The 49-year-old author admitted that she had no specialist knowledge but was instead inspired by the live video feed from the International Space Station.
She has published scholarly works on late Victorian literature and Creative Writing pedagogy and served on the editorial boards of Turn-of-the-Century Women, The Walter Pater Newsletter, and The ...
Shaking up the stylistic, social and narrative conventions of their time, here are seven works by major writers who have ...
A project which aims to improve 'racial literacy' in secondary schools will be officially launched this month. Lit Legacies brings together educational resources for a play set amidst the Bristol ...
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English Literature degree scrapped from university because it is 'no longer viable'A British university has announced it is ditching English Literature degrees - because not enough students want to study it.
This volume shows how British literature recorded contemporaneous historical change. It traces the emergence and evolution of literary trends as well as enduring transitional shifts in genre, tone ...
The gun was not loaded. The student who placed the gun there was contacted and was found to have no ammunition (bullets) in his possession, and no ammunition was found in the school. The student has ...
The event, with a theme centered around British literature, also showcased the rich cultural and artistic influences with engaging activities such as storytelling sessions, a fancy dress contest, ...
This collection suggests a different approach. Drawing on recent work expanding our sense of the political and aesthetic energies of interwar modernisms, these chapters track transitions in British ...
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