Collection: Matthew Sweet
Matthew Sweet presents Free Thinking on BBC Radio 4 and Sound of Cinema on BBC Radio 3. His twenty-five years of programmes include The Culture Show (BBC2), Checking into History (C4), five series of The Philosophers Arms (Radio 4) and 1922: The Birth of Now, a ten-part history of modernism (Radio 4). He is the author of Inventing the Victorians (Faber, 2001), Shepperton Babylon (Faber, 2005), The West End Front (Faber, 2011) and Operation Chaos (Picador, 2018). He has been film critic of the Independent on Sunday, photography critic of Newsweek and fashion columnist for 1843/The Economist.
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Why Literary Snobbery Is Killing the Joy of Rea...
David HeadleyA person walked into the bookshop recently. Coat still wet from rain. They movedwith the half-hesitant energy of someone who is not entirely convinced they belong.They drifted toward the crime...
David HeadleyWhy Literary Snobbery Is Killing the Joy of Rea...
A person walked into the bookshop recently. Coat still wet from rain. They movedwith the half-hesitant energy of someone who is not entirely convinced they belong.They drifted toward the crime...
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When You Are Not Ready for the Book in Your Hands
David HeadleyA proof of Wolf Hall landed on my desk with a note from Nick at Fourth Estate:“A masterpiece.” But life was happening. A break-up. A young business that needed every decision...
David HeadleyWhen You Are Not Ready for the Book in Your Hands
A proof of Wolf Hall landed on my desk with a note from Nick at Fourth Estate:“A masterpiece.” But life was happening. A break-up. A young business that needed every decision...
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PREM1ER March 2026 Revealed
Rebecca McDonnellEvery great story carries us somewhere far beyond ourselves. For PREM1ER, that journey begins this March with A Far-Flung Life. The long-awaited, deeply moving new novel from M L Stedman, author...
Rebecca McDonnellPREM1ER March 2026 Revealed
Every great story carries us somewhere far beyond ourselves. For PREM1ER, that journey begins this March with A Far-Flung Life. The long-awaited, deeply moving new novel from M L Stedman, author...
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What We Will Be Reading in 2026
David HeadleyOver the last few weeks of 2025, I sat in meeting rooms across London, listening to editors pitch their biggest novels for 2026. After years in this industry, you can...
David HeadleyWhat We Will Be Reading in 2026
Over the last few weeks of 2025, I sat in meeting rooms across London, listening to editors pitch their biggest novels for 2026. After years in this industry, you can...
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