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SMFMS Book Group What: Daphne du Maurier's Jamaica Inn (1936) When: Early November, date TBD Where: Teams (online only) Who: Patreon paid members (sign up before November if you'd like to attend) We'll send out a calendar invite/Teams link shortly.

It's time to guess the clue to our next episode! We've read a lot of books about a mousy woman in love with a brooding man, and the influence of his previous wife. Our next text has a mousy woman in love with a brooding man, who has THREE previous wives. What are we reading?

Applications are now open for Newberry Library fellowships for 2025-26. Both long-term and short-term fellowships are available. Here are the details: mailchi.mp/df368812be45/n…

😷📔'Reading Habits in the Covid-19 Pandemic: An Applied Linguistic Perspective' (2024) by Dr Abigail Boucher, Marcello Giovanelli, Dr Chloe Harrison, Dr Robbie Love & Caroline Godfrey was such a pleasure to read and to review! 👇tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… English Studies

Is Daniel Jenkin-Smith angry because no one guessed our Halloween episode? Or because he marks A-Levels on this text and is FED UP with reading Carter? Tune in next week to hear some high calibre rants.

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ATTENTION: after an intervention from corporate, the podcast is ditching its literary focus and reinventing itself to corner the true crime-hippo crossover market. Angela Carter's 'The Bloody Chamber' (1979) will be our last ever book. Out Wednesday.

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Halloween is upon us yet again - but the spookiest thing of all is marking A levels. Join us at Mont Saint Michel for our retelling of Angela Carter's 'The Bloody Chamber' (1979): podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/epi…

Very well done to English at Aston University's Dr Abigail Boucher and History at Aston's Ilaria Scaglia who both won Aston University Achievement awards yesterday evening. These awards are so well deserved! Great news for our department!

A dark day for Abby and all other straight-up PMC libs - but for Daniel, life is a bed of roses (albeit an incredibly labourious, itchy one). Marginalia, dog-ears, bookcase management, bad sex, and much, much, more in this month's Bookends. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/smf…

It's time to guess the clue to our next episode! We had a lot of summer-themed texts this season. Now that we're properly in autumn, it's time to embrace the dark. What are we reading?

No one guessed our clue and most glaring omission: probably our most referenced text across all 5 seasons! Join us 27 Nov when we look at the dark side of humanity with Conrad's imperial horror story, 'Heart of Darkness' (1899). Just in time for cheery Thanksgiving discussion!

Today is Thanksgiving in America: a day for family, food, and hopefully absolutely nothing from our new episode on Joseph Conrad's imperial nightmare, 'Heart of Darkness' (1899). In this episode, we also introduce the newest member of the SMFMS family! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/epi…

It's time to guess the clue to our next episode, which drops Christmas Day! When we did 'Ethan Frome', our clue was: it has a famous scene featuring a classic winter recreational activity (in that case, tragic sledding). The same can be said of our next text. What are we reading?

Several people guessed our next text correctly. Landing with you on Christmas Day is Louisa May Alcott's American Civil War bildungsroman and all-around joyous lark, 'Little Women' (1869). As Jo March says, 'Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without any Save Me From My Shelf'.

Our 'Little Women' featured the obligatory 'which March sister are you?' segment. We also covered which Beatle each sister was, which humour, which Nintendo character and a range of other 'canonical foursomes'. New Christmas parlour game? Tune in on the big day!

Time to guess the clue to our next episode! For Season 6, we're only doing controversial and banned texts and *won't* do a Shakespeare play. We will start S6, though, with a contemporary of Shakespeare, whose very dark work is frequently taught in the UK. What are we reading?

We had one correct guess! Season 6--which focuses only on banned books--will premiere with a staple of GCSE/A-Level literature, John Webster's 'The Duchess of Malfi' (1614). Tune in on 15 January for a gore-tastic spectacle.

Fancy an all-expenses paid trip to the Amalfi coast? Well, John Webster's 'The Duchess of Malfi' (1613) *may* be set there. Or you could take a snail-sled to Moscow. Just one of the many absurd (when not ultra-violent) images in this freak of a play: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/epi…