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A Blagger’s Guide To… A Winter Reading List!

Winter is officially upon us; for those not living in halls, the heating has begrudgingly been turned on, the second round of fresher’s flu has hit and when the snow begins to fall there will be nothing more appealing than staying indoors tucked up with a hot water…

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Wednesday 9th November 2011

The Fresh Face of Anarchism

A silhouetted figure perches five stories above a dissident crowd. He waits for police to march beneath him before he launches a fire extinguisher into their path. 8 months later and a few miles north in Tottenham, a protest over a police shooting turns into an embittered riot…

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Thursday 6th October 2011

José Saramago

I was in a book shop in Picadilly a couple of months ago and asked the assistant for José Saramago. This Nobel Prize winner is considered to be one of the greatest writers in Portuguese literature so imagine my surprise when the gentleman came back and told me…

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Saturday 20th August 2011

How I learned to stop worrying and love ‘bad English’

When it comes to the English language, I turn into a purist — and I don’t just mean cringing at the odd misplaced apostrophe, but full-on, wretched ‘grammar-OCD’. I probably wouldn’t resort to text-speak even if I had life-or-death-determining seconds to contact friends and family, and any conversation…

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Tuesday 31st May 2011

A Blagger’s Guide to…Jane Austen

Mr Darcy, immortalized by Colin Firth in the 1995 version of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is one of the best-loved romantic heroes of English literature. For his creation alone Jane Austen is credited as one of the most recognizable names in English history. However it is important to remember…

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Tuesday 8th March 2011

New Years’ Resolution: Must Read More!

Sartre once said, “Everything I have learned about my life, it seems I have learned in books.” Here we find ourselves at university for ‘x’ number of years under the guise of wanting to learn more and to better ourselves. We might go to lectures, read the set…

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Monday 17th January 2011

Blagger’s Guide to… Ulysses

Ulysses. It’s a bit of a head-scratcher, isn’t it? Well, fear not, help is at hand! Firstly, the whole novel (yes, all 900-odd pages), written by James Joyce, only occurs over 24 hours, concerning an average day. It is broken into eighteen chapters, each one directly corresponding to…

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Sunday 5th December 2010

Creative Campus: Mince Pies, Killing Santa Claus, and an Evening with the Creative Writing Society

‘Is anyone brave enough to share?’ There is a moment of silence; a shuffle; a mumble; then one brave soul starts reading. He sounds like a regular slam poet. The group chuckle at the funny bits and nod encouragingly. The weekly meeting of the Nottingham Creative Writing Society…

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Tuesday 6th July 2010

How to get published

Having spent the Easter holiday reading, highlighting and reading some more, in the corner of a publisher’s office I have been the accidental eavesdropper to many a conversation between editors. Their criticisms would be very useful to someone who wants to see their books at the front of…

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Wednesday 28th April 2010

Books To Get Your Teeth Into

Over this Easter break I was fortunate enough to get a two-week placement at a London publishing house. I am only half way through but, with the number of manuscripts I have had to read, I feel like I could already give quite a few book reviews for…

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