Dodie Smith
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100 books by women you have to read
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- June 4, 2018, 16:14
The 2018 Hay Festival, in collaboration with The Pool, published this list of 100 books by women, including works by Iris Murdoch, Edna O’Brien, Maria(...)

Write on, sister: 20 great books by women
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- August 18, 2014, 12:20
The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath (1963) Published under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas in 1963, Sylvia Plath’s only novel tells the story of Esther Gre(...)

Brought to Book: Vona Groarke on the unbearable lightness of reviews
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- May 30, 2014, 01:00
Vona Groarke’s latest book is X, published in February by the Gallery Press. She is also the author of five other award-winning poetry collections, in(...)

Children’s Books: Still capturing the castle – and teenage readers – 65 years on
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- November 30, 2013, 01:00
Dodie Smith’s I Capture the Castle, first published 65 years ago, remains one of the most acute and entertaining fictional portrayals of young adultho(...)

Word for Word: ‘I lost my heart to a Western’
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- March 18, 2013, 06:00
The summer before I started college, I lost my heart to a Western. As I waited nervously for my Leaving Cert results, I distracted myself with (...)