In this week's Really Like This book podcast scripts catch-up, I’m in the English Renaissance, pricking across the plain with the Red-Crosse Knight, in Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene. This is the biggest and most elaborate courtly flattery ever written, and it’s not even complete. Edmund Spenser was a subject of Queen Elizabeth, the first of that … Continue reading The Faerie Queene, by Edmund Spenser
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Now posting on Vulpes Libris: Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account
Last week, I had the pleasure of reading a book before it was announced as a Man Booker longlistee: that doesn't often happen! I do not have a high opinion of past winners of the Booker. Those that I've tried have been severely disappointing, dreary or plain irritating. I obviously don't read what the judges think I … Continue reading Now posting on Vulpes Libris: Laila Lalami’s The Moor’s Account
