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Dec 4, 2024 | 
the-tls.co.uk | Margaret Drabble
Welcome to the TLSWinner of the 2024 Niche Market Newspaper of the Year Award and proudly niche since 1902.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
inkl.com | AS Byatt |Margaret Drabble
Noel (left) and Liam Gallagher at Wembley Stadium in 2008. ‘Not everyone loves Oasis, but most people enjoy a sibling feud.’ Photograph: Zak Hussein/PA News of the reunion of Liam and Noel Gallagher next year for their first Oasis gigs since the band’s dramatic breakup 16 years ago has brightened up the dog days of summer for more than just diehard fans. Not everyone loves Oasis, but most people enjoy a sibling feud.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
starsinsider.com | John Keats |Margaret Drabble |A.S. Byatt
Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan- In a story worthy of a movie—we'll come to that in a minute—figure skater Tonya Harding was at the center of one of the biggest sports scandals in recent history after being implicated in the January 1994 attack on her rival Nancy Kerrigan, struck in the knee with a baton by an assailant hired by Kerrigan's husband.
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
newstatesman.com | Margaret Drabble
The first images in this study of three country lives show photographs of Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann, each separately struggling with a goat. Sylvia’s goat is called Victoria Ambrosia, but Rosamond’s is unnamed. Virginia Woolf isn’t shown with a goat, but we know that as a child she was called “the Goat”, according to her nephew and biographer Quentin Bell because she was “incalculable, eccentric and prone to accidents”.
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Feb 13, 2024 | 
the-tls.co.uk | Margaret Drabble
Welcome to the TLSWinner of the 2024 Niche Market Newspaper of the Year Award and proudly niche since 1902.
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Oct 3, 2023 | 
unherd.com | Margaret Drabble
Books or babies? It’s a choice that has presented itself to women writers for centuries. And it was a favourite theme of Ursula K. Le Guin who struggled, successfully, to balance the two. In her lecture, “The Fisherwoman’s Daughter”, published in 1988, she takes an optimistic view. “The Victorian script calls for a clear choice — either books or babies for a woman, but not both.” She chose both.
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May 6, 2023 | 
theguardian.com | Margaret Drabble
Our family watched the coronation of Elizabeth II with our neighbours, as we didn’t have a television set. We were invited next door for sandwiches and sherry trifle with the queen, and she was more impressive than Andy Pandy and Muffin the Mule, whom we children used to sneak round to view on the quiet. My parents disapproved of television, though they later succumbed when they found my very much younger brother was culturally deprived and isolated because we didn’t have one.
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Apr 24, 2023 | 
booksfromscotland.com | Margaret Drabble
Margaret Drabble Dame Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield in 1939 and was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge. She is the author of twenty highly acclaimed novels. She has also written biographies, screenplays and was the editor of the Oxford Companion to English Literature. She was appointed CBE in 1980, and made DBE in the 2008 Honours list. She was also awarded the 2011 Golden PEN Award for a Lifetime’s Distinguished Service to Literature. She is married to the biographer Michael Holroyd.
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Apr 24, 2023 | 
booksfromscotland.com | Margaret Drabble
Margaret Drabble Dame Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield in 1939 and was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge. She is the author of twenty highly acclaimed novels. She has also written biographies, screenplays and was the editor of the Oxford Companion to English Literature. She was appointed CBE in 1980, and made DBE in the 2008 Honours list. She was also awarded the 2011 Golden PEN Award for a Lifetime’s Distinguished Service to Literature. She is married to the biographer Michael Holroyd.
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Mar 1, 2023 | 
foxedquarterly.com | Margaret Drabble
Edith Wharton’s The Custom of the Country (1913) is one of the most sparkling and enjoyable novels I have ever read, and I’ve read it now several times. Each time it manages to surprise and delight me. I put it in a class with Pride and Prejudice, as a book that offers endlessly renewable pleasure. That’s high praise, but I mean every word of it.
