Books + Letters

Letter: Working-class lives are unlikely to be properly represented in fiction if the publishing industry is run by middle-class graduates, says Nick Moss

Brief letters: Bibliophilia | Tories’ declaration of independence | Prepayment meters | School report language | A file on ‘Prince, Charles’

Letter: Four decades of feminism topped off by #MeToo has laid bare The Mayor of Casterbridge’s back-to-front moral concerns, writes Matthew Pires

Brief letters: Drumlanrig’s riches | Slavery and Austen | Existential T-shirts

Simon Murray writes: He was one of the few academics who appeared to know much about trade unions

Geoffrey Cannon writes: Jonathan Raban describes how he became a lone sailor in For Love & Money (1987)