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One for your TBR pile folks! A clever, many-layered read by award-winning novelist @nicholasblincoe.bsky.social 💙📚
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"The melding of fiction, memoir and history raises questions about the extent to which a novelist fuses the raw material of life with their fertile imagination."
Georgia de Chamberet @bookblast.org admires Nicholas Blincoe’s Oliver Twist & Me
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Memoir, social history and more
Georgia de Chamberet finds much to admire in Nicholas Blincoe’s Oliver Twist & Me, a dual biography of Dickens and the author’s workhouse apprentice ancestor.
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November 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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I wrote about my great great great grandfather for the Guardian
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Plot Twist: I am related to the real-life Oliver
Oliver Twist is one of the author’s best known creations. But for Nicholas Blincoe, the story is much closer to home. He reveals an astonishing family history
www.theguardian.com
August 24, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Barney Ronay writes an article excoriating GaryLineker for not knowing the rat antisemitic trope. The same Barney Ronay who was vilely abusive to me when I asked that he didn't compare a small Egyptian to a desert rat (Salah = a Gerbil) - Lineker took the blame and responsibility, Ronay doesn't
May 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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This is such a lovely, warm and suitably lively obit of Charlotte Raven, who died far too young, by @nicholasblincoe.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...
Charlotte Raven obituary
Editor of the Modern Review and Guardian columnist who later chronicled her experience of Huntington’s disease
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM