Why I Really Like This Book
English professor Kate Macdonald talks about the books she loves but which don't make it onto the curriculum. These ten-minute audio podcasts are about forgotten fiction, and non-fiction, and are for readers who love to discover something to read that's been around for a while. ...
English professor Kate Macdonald talks about the books she loves but which don't make it onto the curriculum. These ten-minute audio podcasts are about forgotten fiction, and non-fiction, and are for readers who love to discover something to read that's been around for a while. The first series is working through the alphabet by author surname. In 2012 series two will tackle genre fiction.
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Susan Cooper and The Dark is Rising - Five Novels about King Arthur
The Dark is Rising was a set of excellent novels ...
The Dark is Rising was a set of excellent novels for decades before it was a film. Susan Cooper's 1970s series is timeless, a real world quest fantasy steeped in Arthurian magic, where Merlin is a butler and a professor.
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Mary Stewart and The Crystal Cave - Five Novels about King Arthur
The story of Merlin, and how King Uther got to ...
The story of Merlin, and how King Uther got to the Duchess of Cornwall's bedroom, Mary Stewart's The Crystal Cave fills in the gaps before Arthur's birth with the brilliant and believable story of Merlin. All the magic by mathematics and psychology...
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Rosemary Sutcliff and The Lantern-Bearers - Five Novels about King Arthur
A late period Rosemary Sutcliff novel, The Lantern-Bearers is set ...
A late period Rosemary Sutcliff novel, The Lantern-Bearers is set when the Roman Empire has pulled out of Britain, and there is no-one to hold back the Saxon hordes except the Roman-trained Aurelius Ambrosianus, and his nephew Arthur. A novel about...
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T H White and The Once and Future King - Five Novels about King Arthur
Not one novel about Arthur, but five: The Sword in ...
Not one novel about Arthur, but five: The Sword in the Stone, The Queen of Air and Darkness, The Ill-Made Knight, The Candle in the Wind, and The Book of Merlyn. Everything you ever wanted to know about the Arthurian legend, in brilliant postmodern...
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Mark Twain and A Connecticut Yankee at the Court of King ArthUr - Five Novels about King Arthur
Here's a fine satire about ignorance and primitive living at ...
Here's a fine satire about ignorance and primitive living at Camelot, where the benign reign of King Arthur needs improving. Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee takes over the kingdom and brings the 19th century into the 6th century: a great novel about...
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Terry Pratchett and The Truth
Brace yourself for deep truths about newspapers and reporting, in ...
Brace yourself for deep truths about newspapers and reporting, in a world where the characters have names with a strange resemblance to typefaces, and where no magic is used to make the news, only identifying the story. Brilliant satire from Terry...
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Monica Dickens and My Turn to Make the Tea
It;s the 1950s and Monica Dickens is a very junior ...
It;s the 1950s and Monica Dickens is a very junior reporter on a very local paper. It's always her turn to make the tea. She bicycles everywhere. She lodges with the landlady from hell. Her stories about post-war life for ordinary people are...
