The Secret Life of Books Series 2 Episodes Available now
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Swallows and Amazons
6/6 How Arthur Ransome perfected a new, more authentic kind of children's literature.
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Cider with Rosie
5/6 How Laurie Lee blended fact and fiction in his elegy to a disappeared rural world.
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Confessions of an English Opium Eater
4/6 John Cooper Clarke explores Thomas de Quincey's addiction memoir.
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The Mill on the Floss
3/6 Fiona Shaw explores the genesis of George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss.
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Edward Lear's Nonsense Songs
2/6 Nicholas Parsons explores the fine line between joy and melancholy in Lear's writing.
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The Faerie Queene
1/6 Dr Janina Ramirez unravels Edmund Spenser's Elizabethan epic The Faerie Queene.