Big Jubilee Read
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The Big Jubilee Read is a 2022 campaign to promote reading for pleasure and to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Elizabeth II. A list of 70 books by Commonwealth authors, 10 from each decade of Elizab
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A Clockwork Orange (novel)
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A Clockwork Orange is a novel by the English writer Anthony Burgess, published on 17 March 1962. It is set in a near-future society that has a youth subculture of extreme violence. The teenage protago
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…Caradog Prichard 1961 Wales A House for Mr Biswas V. S. Naipaul 1961 Trinidad and Tobago England Sunlight on a Broken Column Attia Hosain 1961 India A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess 1962 England The Interrogation J. M. G. Le Clézio 1963 France Mauritius The Girls of Slender Means Muriel Spark 1963 Scotland Arrow of…
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Vanessa Claire Smith, Sterling Wolfe, Michael Holmes, and Ricky Coates in Brad Mays' multi-media stage production of A Clockwork Orange, 2003, Los Angeles. (photo: Peter Zuehlke)
Vanessa Claire Smith in Brad Mays' multi-media stage production of A Clockwork Orange, 2003, Los Angeles. (photo: Peter Zuehlke)