Born in Cardiff, Andrew Davies is a multi-award-winning screenwriter, novelist and former academic. He is best known for his adaptations of Pride and Prejudice, Middlemarch, War and Peace, Bleak House, House of Cards and Bridget Jones’s Diary. His original work includes A Very Peculiar Practice, Game On and Filthy Rich. He is a Fellow […]
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John Calder Translation Prize
Introducing the John Calder Translation Prize An annual award for English translations of ‘ambitious, groundbreaking’ works opens for submissions in January Alma Books, in association with the Society of Authors and the Whitefriars Club, is delighted to announce the launch of the John Calder Translation Prize, an annual award for translations into English […]
An Interview with Dr. Patrick Chura, University of Akron
To celebrate the rediscovery of Albert Maltz and the republication of A Tale of One January, we caught up with literature professor Patrick Chura, who is writing the introductions to our new editions of Maltz’s novels. Your research has involved a handful of American writers including Henry David Thoreau and Eugene O’Neill. What drew […]
Ulysses Quiz
Do you think you know your Ulysses stuff? Well, we’ll see! Here’s a quiz to test your knowledge about Ulysses by James Joyce. If you get some of the questions wrong, don’t worry, you’ll be the only one to know! You can play this quiz anonymously or, for a chance to win a copy of […]
The Emergency Zoo – Teachers’ resources
Teachers’ resources can be found here (right click to download the PDF) EmergencyZooTR
