Footnotes & Tangents Library

Book guides | Slow reads | Notes

Welcome to the Footnotes & Tangents Library! Explore curated resources for our slow reads.

Further resources

Wolf Crawl | Hilary Mantel, Thomas Cromwell & Tudor England
Hilary Mantel | General resources
The Siege of Krishnapur | JG Farrell and the Indian Rebellion
A Place of Greater Safety | Hilary Mantel’s historical novel and the French Revolution
Things Fall Apart | Chinua Achebe and Things Fall Apart
The Blue Flower | Penelope Fitzgerald and German Romanticism
Midnight’s Children | Salman Rushdie, his novel and modern India
Regeneration | Pat Barker, W. H. R. Rivers and the war poets Sassoon and Owen