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/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=11910 Mailer, Norman. Time of Our Time. 1998.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=19260 Ayckbourn, Alan. Time And Time Again. 1992.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=15684 Godden, Rumer. A Time to Dance, No Time to Weep. 1987.

Please see our profile of Rumer Godden.

Times Literary Supplement (1902)

The Times Literary Supplement is a weekly review of books and arts published from London in newspaper form since 1902. As its name suggests, it was originally (1902-14) a free supplement, provided with the Friday issue of the daily newspaper The Times. Since March 1914 it has been on sale as a separate paper. In its early decades it was commonly referred to as the Times Lit. Supp. , but from the 1950s the simpler abbreviation TLS became habitual, and that has been the paper’s masthead since 1969. A famous feature of TLS articles until 1974 was that they were, with some exceptions, anonymous. The exceptions included a few cases in which the paper was keen to advertise a reviewer’s special eminence – as in the byline given to Henry James for his review-article “The Younger Generation” (1914). The scope of the “Literary” in the paper’s title has always been interpreted broadly as meaning significant books, includi

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=25835 Beckett, Samuel. That Time. 1975.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=37366 Milne, A. A.. Once on a Time. 1917.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=1282 McEwan, Ian. The Child in Time. 1987.

McEwan's third novel is thematically linked to but substantially different from his first two. Like The Cement Garden (1978), there is a central male protagonist, but also, like The Comfort of Strangers (1981), there is a concern with a couple in crisis. Again, childhood is a major preoccupation, and so are gender relations. The most noticeable change, after a six year gap since his last novel, is a widening of social interest. The novel takes place over a few years but is initially set in the “last decent summer” of the 1990s, a projected future (at the time of writing) in which beggars are licensed by the government and schools are offered for sale to private investors. The Child in Time (1987) is the story of Stephen Lewis, a young married man with a 3-year old daughter, living in London. The opening chapter is a characteristic tour de force in which Stephen loses the child, Kate, in a supermarket. She is never found and the loss takes a considerab

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=2573 Storey, David. Present Times. 1984.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=2900 Pinter, Harold. Party Time. 1994.

/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=3101 Pinter, Harold. Old Times. 1971.