Tag: Brothers Grimm

Child’s Play: Why You Should Read Children’s Books, Even Though You Are So Old and Wise by Katherine Rundell

  Jo Hemmings

Katherine Rundell’s essay is a brilliantly smart and engaging defence of the importance of children’s literature for all readers, of all ages, writes our arts contributor Jo Hemmings.

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Helen Oyeyemi’s Gingerbread – a surreal and fantastical story about mother-daughter relationships

  Carla Plieth

Helen Oyeyemi’s latest novel, Gingerbread, surreally blurs fact and fiction in a tale involving three generations of women who love to bake.

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Daisy Johnson’s Everything Under – a clever, murky retelling of the Oedipus myth

  Victoria Smith

Daisy Johnson’s 2018 Man Booker-shortlisted novel, Everything Under, rewrites the Oedipus myth into a mother-daughter story set in an eerie, waterlogged world.

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Edward Burne-Jones at Tate Britain

  Miriam Al Jamil

Greek myths and Arthurian legends are colourfully brought to life in Tate Britain’s latest exhibition, Edward Burne-Jones.

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