Districts and circles

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A literary game of consequences remembered

MARGARET DRABBLE

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The TLS Magazine

What makes a novel of ideas?

Wordplay, queer themes and witty experimentation in the novels of a literary original

FROM LORCA: THE DRAWINGS BY HELEN OPPENHEIMER (1987) ...

W hile people in the world of books, ...

Bourgeois chronicler of multicultural London who tended to deify black foreigners and demonise native whites

Reading is sexy (again) ON a recent Friday ...

What makes a novel of ideas?

Wordplay, queer themes and witty experimentation in the novels of a literary original

FROM LORCA: THE DRAWINGS BY HELEN OPPENHEIMER (1987) ...

W hile people in the world of books, ...

Bourgeois chronicler of multicultural London who tended to deify black foreigners and demonise native whites

Reading is sexy (again) ON a recent Friday ...