5 June The literary calendar
On this day in English literature
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Born on this day 03
Thought for the day
I am an unfortunate and deserted creature, I look around and I have no relation or friend upon earth. These amiable people to whom I go have never seen me and know little of me. I am full of fears, for if I fail there, I am an outcast in the world forever.
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Published on this day
- 1939 Murder Is Easy by Agatha Christie
- 2003 Notes on a Scandal by Zoë Heller
- 2014 George and the Unbreakable Code by Lucy Hawking
- 2006 The Gideon Trilogy by Linda Buckley-Archer
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- Margaret Drabble: summonedbyfells, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
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- Geoff Dyer: David Shankbone, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Edward Capern: John Edgar Williams, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
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