3 October The literary calendar
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Thought for the day
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
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Published on this day
- 2005 The Pale Horseman by Bernard Cornwell
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- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke: Edmund Lodge, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Grace Dent: Jamesrichardthompson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Lindsey Kelk: Miyagawa, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- William Morris: Frederick Hollyer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Olivia Shakespear: Hayman Seleg Mendelssohn, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Arnold Bax: Herbert Lambert (1881-1936), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- A. L. Rowse: Ottoline Morrell (1873-1938), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized