Top 10 books of the Midlands
Attributo da The Guardian
10 opere 10,901 libri 271 recensioni 3.8
In 2005 Birmingham MP John Hemming ran a competition to name the "greatest West Midlands writer" in history. The nominees, who included Coventry-born Philip Larkin, a poet more closely associated mostra altro with the city of Hull, and ultimate winner Arnold Bennett, who actually wrote about a part of the world – the Potteries – which was classed as "the north" during his lifetime, illustrating why it is so difficult to talk about "Midlands literature".
It's a part of the country that is formless, and, taking in Shropshire, Warwickshire, the Black Country and Leicestershire, notoriously hard to name.
But having set two books [...] in my home town of Wolverhampton, I do think there is certain way of thinking and writing when you are neither from the north or the south, when you live in an English urban, multicultural setting which is not London.
And for what's it worth, here are 10 books that I think do a great job of capturing the mindset …
Sathnam Sanghera – LT author page mostra meno
It's a part of the country that is formless, and, taking in Shropshire, Warwickshire, the Black Country and Leicestershire, notoriously hard to name.
But having set two books [...] in my home town of Wolverhampton, I do think there is certain way of thinking and writing when you are neither from the north or the south, when you live in an English urban, multicultural setting which is not London.
And for what's it worth, here are 10 books that I think do a great job of capturing the mindset …
Sathnam Sanghera – LT author page mostra meno
Opera | Etichetta d'ordinamento |
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La banda dei brocchi (2001) di Jonathan Coe | 1 |
Toast (2003) di Nigel Slater | 2 |
The News Where You Are (2010) di Catherine O'Flynn | 3 |
The Old Wives' Tale (1908) di Arnold Bennett | 4 |
Adrian Mole and The Weapons of Mass Destruction (2004) di Sue Townsend | 5 |
Anita and Me (1996) di Meera Syal | 6 |
Moranthology (2012) di Caitlin Moran | 7 |
Like The Roman: The Life of Enoch Powell (1998) di Simon Heffer | 8 |
Ottimo lavoro, professore| (1988) di David Lodge | 9 |
Collected Poems (1976) di W. H. Auden | 10 |
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