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@BCPCouncil Will you be accepting food bank donations?

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@BCPLibraries Thanks to Jo and Darren #BCPBookChat

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@Joseamey @BCPLibraries Yes, so a greater emphasis on the human drama rather than bald facts #BCPBookChat

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@BCPLibraries Q7. Perhaps that when writing about the past, despite a quest for accuracy, there is always a degree of speculation. #BCPBookchat

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@BCPLibraries Q6. I think it depends on how distant the reader is from the era being described. I don’t think we can accurately know how Charles I felt when overthrown and sentenced #BCPBookChat

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@BCPLibraries @Joseamey I've not read any. They're military sagas? #BCPBookChat

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@BCPLibraries Q5. It would be those authors that are writing about their own times (Du Maurier or even Wodehouse) that we then read in the 21st century. #BCPBookChat

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@Joseamey @BCPLibraries Q4. No, they must simply be characters to whom we can relate #BCPBookChat

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@BCPLibraries @Joseamey Yes. But this makes me think about our 'sense of the past' and what is historically accurate, and how the two can differ #BCPBookChat

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@Joseamey @BCPLibraries So inaccuracy can be a distracting irritation. My friend once noted the incorrect inclusion of Grannie Smith apples in an Austen adaptation #BCPBookChat

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@BCPLibraries Q3. Accuracy allows contrast with our own times. There is a moral responsibility, particularly when portraying recent history, to ‘get it right’. I’d segregate alternative history and historical fantasy as they deserve distinction #BCPBookChat

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@BCPLibraries Q2. They tend to focus a great deal on hierarchy in society and the fate (and the sometimes futile struggle against it) that follows according to where you are positioned. This is something readers can relate to. Mantel, Hardy, Fellowes, Cookson all write on this. #BCPBookChat

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@Joseamey @BCPLibraries Merlin? #BCPBookChat

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@BCPLibraries Q1. I have no favourite setting. I’d like to see more written about the 1950s era in the UK. #BCPBookChat

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@BCPLibraries Hi, Moncrieff here #BCPBookChat

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@BCPLibraries Thank you, Darren and Jo #BCPBookChat

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@BCPLibraries Q7. Yes, and there’s plenty to write about – stasis, isolation and futility, economic consequences, learning how to be a teacher…#BCPBookChat

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@BCPLibraries Q6. Not sure! But there's often something 'cosy' in slice of life books. Not sure where fantasy elements fit in with this. #BCPBookChat

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@BCPLibraries @Joseamey Perhaps the language, the vocabulary, the use of syntax and metaphor all play a part in the definition #BCPBookChat

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@BCPLibraries Q5. Literary Fiction can take the mundane and use it as a metaphor to point to and illuminate larger events within society. Slice of Life tends to stay within a closed, domestic situation #BCPBookchat