My top 10 list of favourite heroines in literature!

Waking up with the Master and Margarita-Bulgakov’s helter skelter tapestry of fantasy and pantomine.

Saturday, August 27th, 2011

I first read The Master and Margarita at Liverpool University when I was studying Russian Studies with English. My tutor Professor Arnold McMillin found my reaction slightly bizarre. as I found myself secretly crossing myself at the terrible revelation that in such a morally surreal world as Bulgakov’s Moscow, the figure of Woland( aka the [...]

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Cath And Jen Corri talking about Toni Morrison’s Beloved.

Monday, August 22nd, 2011

Cath Corri What novel/novelist has inspired or touched your life most and why? For me it is Toni Morrison’s BELOVED ………… unique in its style and works with history, language and motherhood in a fantastical but completely new way. Opened up Afro-American women’s writing to me and deconstructs the female literary canon. In fact, this [...]

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Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits: My top 10 Novels!

Friday, June 24th, 2011

‘Barrabas came to us by the sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy. She was already in the habit of writing down important matters, and afterward, when she was mute, she also recorded trivialities, never suspecting that fifty years later I would use her notebooks to reclaim the past and overcome terrors of [...]

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Kezia Burnell in Katherine Mansfield's stories about New Zealand

Wednesday, March 16th, 2011

Katherine Mansfield’s Kezia always makes me SMILE!!! Whenever she appears in a story I want to stand up and applaud her instinctive kindness, courage and resourcefulness too. She lives in a family probably not unlike that of Katherine Mansfield herself and the three New Zealand stories in which she is so strongly featured, ( Prelude, [...]

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