Alan Bennett: Diary for 2022
The LRB Podcast
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The Queen's Life and Times
At first seen the Queen as a boy of fourteen, when she visited Leeds. Her complexion lit up, luminous, and almost unearthly. Hillary Mantell was a good writer long before she fell for Thomas Cromwell. For novels about the same period, I prefer CJ Sansam's Shard Lake stories.
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