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the “Bard of Barking” has produced a “first-rate work of history” that restores skiffle to its rightful place at the “fountainhead of British pop music”
The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich
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A book that surprised me and delighted me
The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Emily Wilson quiz the “Bard of Barking” hasThe first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty and power; about marriage, family and identity; and about travellers, hospitality and the changing meanings of home in a strange world. This vivid new translation the first by a woman matches the number of lines in the Greek original, striding at Homer's sprightly pace. Emily Wilson employs elemental, resonant