Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart by Robert Bernard Martin

This is a multi-award winning biography of the poet who voiced the concerns of the Victorian era. Tennyson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennyson) was Poet Laureate for an astonishing 42 years.  To go with this, listen to the BBC Radio 4 ‘In Our Time’ 45 minute episode on Tennyson’s great poem In Memoriam. Available from the link http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0124pnq  With

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Underworld

No less than a panorama of post-war US history from the 50s to the 90s. Through fragments and interlaced stories—including those of highway killers, artists, celebrities, conspiracists, gangsters, nuns, and sundry others—DeLillo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeLillo) creates a fragile web of connected experience, a communal Zeitgeist that encompasses the messy whole of five decades of American life. A huge, baggy

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