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Exclusive: Kim Sherwood on 007, writing, and Fleming’s Feminism

Kim Sherwood will be known to many University of Edinburgh English Literature students as one of our best lecturers.  She is also a widely read, award-winning novelist, shortlisted (among other accolades) for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year in 2019. What excited me above all is that she is the current author hired […]

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James Bond and the Dangers of Literary Censorship

We live in an era of literary rewriting.  Following the news that Roald Dahl’s works are being rewritten to remove offensive language (which we covered in The Student), James Bond is the next target.  Major news outlets have revealed that Ian Fleming’s novels are to be reissued with many potentially offensive lines removed. Once again, […]