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Paté and Parallels: Reading “The Last Chronicle of Barset”

April 14, 2018

I’ve been reading Anthony Trollope’s The Last Chronicle of Barset recently, and enjoying the experience.  [Spoiler warning: don’t read this …

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Clerks, Clerics and Tricksters: A Word and its Literary History

April 2, 2017

This weekend the Erewash Press published Anthony Trollope’s novel The Three Clerks.  It’s a great read, partly because of the …

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A Church in Crisis: Anthony Trollope’s ‘Clergymen of the Church of England’

March 24, 2017

Last month the Erewash Press published Clergymen of the Church of England, Anthony Trollope’s collection of “clerical sketches”.  In it …

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Miss Mackenzie: A Spinster, A Fortune and some Stumfolds

December 18, 2016

Miss Mackenzie is the title of a less-famous novel by Anthony Trollope, but it’s one I’ve been fascinated by ever …

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“the use of the post-office is in her own hands” – Anthony Trollope, Pillar Boxes, and Love Letters

January 6, 2016

Anthony Trollope invented the pillar-box, and then regretted it. That’s one of those facts which has been at the back …

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Talking Like A Book: Authors and Audiobooks

September 10, 2013

I really like audiobooks.  This probably shouldn’t surprise me as much as it does: after all, I work on performance …

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My latest book investigates a literary urban legend about Shakespeare and the King James Bible.

Words of Power: Reading Shakespeare and the Bible - my book on the history and use of these two texts.

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