Contents

From the Editors A Dickens of a Riot • DAISY HAY

Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge

Between the Lines • SUE GEE

E. H. Shepard, Drawn from Memory & Drawn from Life

From Bloomsbury . . . • ALAN BRADLEY

Virginia Woolf, The Common Reader

. . . to Buckingham Palace • HAZEL WOOD

Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader

Rock, Root and Bird • JUSTIN MAROZZI

Nan Shepherd, The Living Mountain

Keeping Ahead of the Game • CHRISTOPHER RUSH

Anon., Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Russian Roulette • ANNE BOSTON

Lionel Davidson, Kolymsky Heights

Incorrigible and Irresistible • SUE GAISFORD

The letters of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

A Modern Pied Piper • MAGGIE FERGUSSON

An interview with Michael Morpurgo

Histories of the Soul • CHRISTIAN TYLER

The works of Svetlana Alexievich

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