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One of the landmarks of Gothic fiction, Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian is read by Georgina Sutton. In part a response to Matthew Lewis’s The Monk, The Italian is a deeply atmospheric novel about two star-crossed lovers and the evil schemes devised to prevent their marriage. David Rintoul brings us Sir Walter Scott’s The Antiquary, a sharp, funny, romantic and Gothic tale full of action, and Adam Sims narrates This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s experimental debut based on his own experience as an aspiring writer.

Vincentio di Vivaldi has fallen in love with Ellena Rosalba. However, his proud and noble family vehemently oppose the match: they cannot allow him to wed someone with no money or social…

Jonathan Oldbuck, the antiquary of the title, has a passion for the past – and delights in trying to convey it. He meets the mysteriously taciturn young Lovel and the two strike up a friendship…

First published in 1920, This Side of Paradise proved to be a best-selling novel in Fitzgerald’s own lifetime. The book follows the early life and education of Amory Blaine and is, in fact…

The NAB Blog: AI – Are the Machines Taking Over?

Scarcely a day goes by when there is not an AI news story in our national media. These range from the cataclysmic ‘Artificial intelligence could lead to extinction’ to the more optimistic ‘New superbug-killing antibiotic discovered using AI’. There is …

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