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Margaret Drabble: confesses to snoring lightly as she listens to the radio.
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Her mother claimed never to have slept well, but when the young Drabble took her tea in bed of a morning, "She was snoring lightly as she listened to the radio, as I now do."
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• Emily Drabble is learnnewsdesk editor• The Amnesty International education team have created resources for the Guardian Teacher Network to celebrate the Amnesty/learnnewsdesk competition.
Young Human Rights Reporter of the Year 2011 – the winners 2011
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Last night, Margaret Drabble read a mini-life story refracted through the theme of sleep.
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Various venuesWays With Words, Southwold, Thu to 14 NovTony Benn, Joan Bakewell, Melvyn Bragg, Maureen Lipman and Margaret Drabble are just a few of the high-profile names at the 20th outing for this well-respected litfest.
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Margaret Drabble reads Katherine Mansfield's 1922 story The Doll's House - the first adult short story she ever read - in which the gift of the perfect dolls' house to the children of a wealthy family shows up the deep social divisions in their village community.
Short stories: Margaret Drabble and Katherine Mansfield 2011
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Skyros has previously run writing trips by such literary luminaries as Hanif Kureishi, Margaret Drabble and Hilary Mantel, and other teachers this year include philosopher and writer Robert Rowland Smith and comedian Arthur Smith, at the company's usual base on the Greek island of Skyros.• £1,095pp for 10 nights in Cuba in a five-star twin room 01983 865566, skyros.com, including breakfast and two evening meals, but excluding flights.
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I shall check what Margaret Drabble thinks of them all, and then try to get hold of The Light That Failed.
May Books 7) On the Place of Gilbert Chesterton in English Letters, by Hilaire Belloc nwhyte 2009
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In Trespassing, by Margaret Drabble, specially commissioned for our Autumn books season, a compulsion to explore forbidden territory leads a woman to a nuclear power station
Short stories: Margaret Drabble and Katherine Mansfield 2011
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• Margaret Drabble is a novelist, biographer, critic and editor of two editions of The Oxford Companion to English Literature.
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