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This is a play, and I don’t usually read those, but I saw The History Boys, the movie and I liked it so much, that I wanted to read the play that it was based on. This play got under my skin in a way that little else has done in all my years of …
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This is the story of a couple, a Mr and Mrs Ransome, who find their sedate and predictable lives disrupted by a completely unexpected event. They go to the opera one evening and they come back home to find that they have been robbed, or so Mrs Ransome says. "Burgled," Mr Ransome says, because people …
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"The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – which you had thought special and particular to you. Now here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it …
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