Bella Snow

Can fiction make sense of the news?

In our politically-charged world, Bella Snow deciphers whether fiction can make sense of the news… Is science-fiction the key to understanding politics? Despair, desolation, nihilism – only a small number from a myriad of consequences the public expected the referendum to bring. But Britain’s withdrawal from the political mainland did not only...
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Posted Dec. 3, 2018

Literary characters on Gogglebox

Bella Snow brings Gogglebox to life with our favourite literary characters from Dorian Grey to Sir Gawain to Sherlock Holmes as they watch the Great British Bake Off final…  This week, viewers were blessed with some enthralling television. With Big Narstie and Scarlett Moffatt bringing hilarity to the Would I...
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Posted Nov. 29, 2018

How my love of literature began

Bella Snow discusses how Dr Seuss originally sparked her love for reading and poetry, a passion that eventually led her to apply to Warwick to study English Literature and Creative Writing. “Kid, you’ll move mountains! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So get on your way!” This, a...
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Posted Nov. 25, 2018

The importance of reading literature which makes us uncomfortable

When I thought about novels that made me uncomfortable, it didn’t take me long to come up with a list of the highest contenders: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind, in which an 18th century Frenchman with incredible olfactory faculties creates perfume from the corpses of virgins;...
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Posted Nov. 20, 2018

Learn from Literature: the importance of literature

It is a well-known principle amongst book collectors and word lovers alike that literature is a multifaceted phenomenon. Books aren’t only repositories of information that we, ourselves, use to also become such repositories – there is something so much richer and more soulful about literature that goes far beyond the...
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Posted Oct. 22, 2018