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The Working Class Library

The Working Class Library

By: New Writing North
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 The Working Class Library is The Bee’s podcast. Each month Richard Benson, editor of The Bee, and Claire Malcolm, CEO of New Writing North, invite a writer to discuss a book and decide whether it deserves a place on the shelves of the Working Class Library – our imaginary library of great books by and about ordinary people.Copyright New Writing North
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Episodes
  • Giving up the Ghost - Hilary Mantel

    Giving up the Ghost - Hilary Mantel
    May 4 2025
    Readers who came to Hilary Mantel after her double-Booker-winning success with Wolf Hall made her a star of the literary world may not be aware that she grew up in a working-class home in a Derbyshire mill town. She, however, said many times that that background had a decisive influence on her as a person and a writer, and in Giving Up the Ghost she shows how. In the end, her status as a working-class woman almost leads to her death. Her memoir prompts the question, how much things changed – or not?
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    55 mins
  • New Grub Street by George Gissing

    New Grub Street by George Gissing
    May 4 2025
    Gissing wrote New Grub Street to skewer the new literary crowd as books boomed with the arrival of mass education in Britain. What does it teach us about book publishing, the British class system and working class writers today?
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    1 hr and 1 min

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