Category: life of books

  • Bestsellers -Video

    About 10-15 years ago (time is elastic when you’re getting older) a phenomenon known as guilty pleasures appeared in music loving circles. People admitted they loved best selling pop songs by Hall and Oates, The Carpenters, Leo Sayer and the like. Prior to the internet, the NME music writers had some kind of Stalinist stranglehold…

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  • Enid Blyton – Video

    The author whose name came up most often in my Life of Books Project survey was Enid Blyton. Enid was a controversial figure all her writing life and even after her death she continued to divide opinion. The BBC in the 1950s refused to dramatise her books claiming them to be simplistic and well, childish,…

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