Questions for Readers: The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
Questions for Readers Harold’s journey is both physical and metaphorical. He is not the only character in the novel to go on a journey and Rachel Joyce has said that writing the book was in itself a journey. What other literary journeys does this novel call to mind? Harold says he is not a religious man…
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The Music Shop – Five Remedies, Music for Healing
There was a time we always invited friends for New Year’s Eve. We asked them to bring nothing but a piece of music they liked. Come dusk, the house would be packed; first we ate, then we sat round, listening carefully to one another’s tracks, and explaining why that music was important to us. Eventually…
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A Snow Garden – Small Stories
Let me start with a story… There was once a Roman emperor who got captured in battle. His enemy decided not to kill the emperor, as he generally liked to do with his prisoners, but instead to use him as a footstool. Yes, a footstool. So our Roman emperor spent the rest of his life…