Robert Winder
Articles by Robert Winder
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Culture
Great Books from the Wrong Point of View No.2
- 20 March 2006
Oliver Twist In Dickens's novel, Oliver is lucky to escape the clutches of Fagin and his gang. Told from another point of view, however, the story might seem rather different. Fagin, we would see, is doing very nicely in London - until Oliver Twist turns up and ruins everything
Books
On the far side of the ring road. Village life used to revolve around farming and religion. But now churchgoing is dwindling and the harvesting is done by itinerant workers. Robert Winder on our changing countryside
- 13 March 2006
Return to Akenfield Craig Taylor Granta Books, 288pp, £14.99 ISBN 1862078874
Books
The hidden story of. . . Emma
- 06 February 2006
In Jane Austen's novel, the heroine receives an unwelcome marriage proposal from the spruce and smiling local vicar, Mr Elton. He plainly doesn't deserve her. But told from another point of view, the story might seem rather different . .
UK Politics
Losing the plot. Four hundred years ago, Catholic conspirators gathered in dark Westminster cellars, preparing to assassinate the king and parliament. Robert Winder on why we should remember them
- 07 November 2005
God's Secret Agents: Queen Elizabeth's forbidden priests and the hatching of the gunpowder plot Alice Hogge HarperCollins, 445pp, £20 ISBN 0007156375 Gunpowder Plots: a celebration of 400 years of bonfire night Various Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 188pp, £14.99 Remember Remember the Fifth of November James Sharpe Profile Books, 230pp, £15.99 Gunpowder: the story Clive Ponting Chatto & Windus, 256pp, £16.99
Books
Offshoots
- 26 September 2005
Bamboo: non-fiction 1978-2004 William Boyd Hamish Hamilton, 650pp, £20 ISBN 0241143055
Books
Bumps in the night
- 11 July 2005
Arthur and George Julian Barnes Jonathan Cape, 360p, £17.99 ISBN 0224077031
Books
Highs and lows. The Sixties may have been a good time to be a photographer or guitarist, but for most people life carried on much the same. By Robert Winder
- 16 May 2005
Never Had It So Good: a history of Britain from Suez to the Beatles Dominic Sandbrook Little, Brown, 824pp, £20 ISBN 0316860832
Books
People like us. The class divide gapes wider than ever, shaping everything, from our feelings about fox-hunting to what we watch on TV. By Robert Winder
- 27 September 2004
Mind the Gap: the new class divide in Britain Ferdinand Mount Short Books, 316pp, £14.99 ISBN 1904095941
Society
The lost tribes
- 21 June 2004
The Church of England, the unions, the political parties - even our football team - have let us down. Yet our need to belong makes us look for new allegiances, whether they be book clubs or the Kabbalah cult. It can also make us putty in unscrupulous hands
