The true origins of some modern additions to the Oxford English Dictionary and other ‘new’ words This post is a sort of sequel to our earlier post, about 10 seemingly modern words which actually have older, literary connections. In that post, we cast an eye over words such as ’email’ […]
Fun facts about the schooldays of well-known authors and other literary types September is the ‘back to school’ month, so to take the edge off that inevitable sinking feeling, we’ve put together ten great facts about the schooldays of famous writers. Some authors have been teachers, but all have been […]
Fun facts about Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird 1. Harper Lee based the character of Dill from To Kill a Mockingbird on the boy who lived next door to her as a child. That boy was Truman Capote. Harper Lee would later work as Truman Capote’s assistant on his novel […]
Here are ten of our favourite quotes about books, from those who should know them pretty well – writers themselves. The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. – Oscar Wilde Why can’t people just sit and read books and be […]