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Brett, a Prison Reading Group member at HMP Bullingdon wrote: ‘If I had to choose a book that I deemed more important in my life than any other, then I’d pick Danny, the Champion of the World’. He writes of his memories of his teacher reading to him at school, and of how memories of reading with his own son are sustaining while he is in prison. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604006228bdf9c0ad830a48f/1615989596672-TULQHVRAJAAAFXXWRRC2/PRG2.png New Page https://www.sophieratcliffe.com/faqs-1 daily 0.75 2024-09-05 https://www.sophieratcliffe.com/wodehouse daily 0.75 2021-04-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604006228bdf9c0ad830a48f/1617319201312-RHKRFTHIZN5LR8QVHG52/P.G.+Wodehouse_+A+Life+in+Letters+-+P.G.+Wodehouse+%26+Edited+by+Sophie+Ratcliffe.jpg Wodehouse - Described by John Carey in The Sunday Times as ‘a model edition’, this authorised edition, combining biography and letters, uncovered hundreds of unseen letters from archives worldwide. It was widely reviewed globally, and was a Guardian feature here. https://www.sophieratcliffe.com/general-2 daily 0.75 2021-04-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604006228bdf9c0ad830a48f/1616152357444-9KQC38J16EFI7XLSU7U1/travelsthroughtimelogo.png Broadcasting My work on women, reading, love and trains, was the subject of the special Travels in Time podcast. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604006228bdf9c0ad830a48f/1616153502081-G3RL772RNUNC5SK9KX17/RatcliffeonWogan.png Broadcasting On the BBC programme, ‘Wogan on Wodehouse’, discussing his writing. I edited Wodehouse’s letters in 2011. Click on the image for a link to the programme https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604006228bdf9c0ad830a48f/1616153873218-BSKKCOJ18GCLUL8XWXPO/Griefcast.png Broadcasting In 2019 I was lucky enough to talk on Cariad Lloyd’s award winning GriefCast about the effects of losing a parent as a child. 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Here’s a recent interview which gives more insight into my work. Most of my writing thinks about why books matter — particularly in relation to love, grief, bereavement, and other kinds of loss. I’m currently researching the history and importance of libraries, and writing a novel about archives. I teach at the University of Oxford, and I’m a Fellow and Tutor at Lady Margaret Hall. I was proud to be a Baillie Gifford Prize judge in 2016 and a Wellcome Book Prize judge in 2018. Click on these links for my journalism and broadcasting I’m represented by Peter Straus at Rogers, Coleridge and White https://www.sophieratcliffe.com/reviews-1 daily 0.75 2021-04-01 https://www.sophieratcliffe.com/the-lost-properties-of-love daily 0.75 2024-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/604006228bdf9c0ad830a48f/c3bb106e-0de5-4fdf-93ad-f84a564e62fe/Ratcliffe_cover%5B56%5D.jpg The Lost Properties of Love ‘With this voyage into grief, longing, eros, and art, Sophie Ratcliffe offers us an intimate, beautifully curated exhibit of history, imagination, revelation, and consolation’ —Margo Jefferson ‘an intricate, fiercely intelligent memoir’, Hephzibah Anderson, The Guardian https://www.sophieratcliffe.com/economist-piece daily 0.75 2021-05-09 https://www.sophieratcliffe.com/new-page-2 daily 0.75 2024-09-05