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unusual facts about Times Literary Supplement



Agnes Mure Mackenzie

Mackenzie was a frequent contributor of reviews to the Times Literary Supplement and The New Statesman, she also lectured, and worked as a reader for publishers.

Buddhadeb Bosu

While discussing Bengali poetry, Edward Thomson referred to the first issue of Kavita in the Times Literary Supplement of 1 February 1936.

Don Share

His other books include: Seneca in English (Penguin Classics) and I Have Lots of Heart (Bloodaxe Books, 1997), a selected collection of Miguel Hernández, for which Share received the Times Literary Supplement Translation Prize and Premio Valle Inclán Prize for Translation from the UK Society of Authors.

Jayne Joso

The Times Literary Supplement felt that it "may emerge as one of the great, eccentric London novels"; and social historian Joe Moran heralded it as "the debut of a distinctive voice in contemporary British fiction".

Richard Leonard

He remained in Brussels until 2009 and wrote on Belgian politics in The Bulletin, and on European affairs in The Guardian (London), the Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement, European Voice, and other newspapers in several countries.

The Communards

Coles followed his Christian leanings and, after periods as a journalist for the Times Literary Supplement and Catholic Herald, he was ordained in the Church of England, spending time as the curate of St Botolph's (The Stump) in Boston, Lincolnshire and as assistant priest at St Paul's Knightsbridge and Chaplain to the Royal College of Music.

The History of Parliament

The Times Literary Supplement review (anonymous but by J. P. Carswell) described the books as "magnificent", but some reviewers were animated by their own feuds with Namier and felt that the books had been limited by their determination to profile MPs individually rather than collectively.


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Randolph Stow

As well as producing fiction, poetry, and numerous book reviews for the Times Literary Supplement, he also wrote libretti for theatrical works by Peter Maxwell Davies.

The Times Literary Supplement

The Times Literary Supplement (or TLS, on the front page from 1969) is a weekly literary review published in London by News UK, a subsidiary of News Corp.

Walking Stewart

Kelly Grovier, 'Dream Walker: A Wordsworth Mystery Solved', Times Literary Supplement, 16 February 2007