Beguiled by the Lit & Phil | Lynsey Hanley

Neil Tennant's favourite Newcastle library is a reminder of what a rich environment can doJust at the point where it felt that Neil Tennant – Pet Shop Boy, public intellectual, "critical friend" of Elton John and the Liberal Democrats alike – couldn't get any higher in my estimation, I found out recently that he is the most famous member of Newcastle's Literary & Philosophical Society.A few years ago he was filmed in its 1825 Grade II-listed home reminiscing about his teenage membership of t...

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