He indicated a solitary rose drooping against a cracked wall in which curious lizards cocked their heads, and then he swept his arms encompassing everything around us.
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Jeremy Black’s France: A Short History reviewed
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My grandmother was named after Adolf Hitler. A fact I was not aware of until five years after her death.
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After the death of her son, a woman plunges into despair but is unable to cry. However, this changes after a meeting with a mysterious man.
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This exploration of Victorian responses to the telegraph is wonderfully thought-provoking, writes Eleanor Franzén.
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Almost two years after it was first performed in Edinburgh in 2014, Rona Munro’s cycle of Scottish history plays remains a heady brew.
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Unearthing the pioneer women of the emigrant trails .
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A fascinating series of essays bringing together singers, songwriters, bands, performers, A&R men, producers and audiences into the whirling gumbo of rock ‘n’ roll.
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A French bestseller newly translated into English, Gros’ reflections on walking are more a dawdle than a march.
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Rory Clements, whose sixth book in the John Shakespeare series of Elizabethan thrillers has just been published, uncovers a deadly circle of intrigue and treason in his hero’s home town, ...
Berlin: Imagine a City explores the complex history and lasting attraction of one of Europe’s most troubled cities, through an innovative mixture of history, biography and imagination.
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When we learnt the nursery rhyme about the bridge at school our teacher made a remark about it being sold to America, and my interest was piqued at a young ...
Last Saturday in London, a host of writers and historians – poet laureate Andrew Motion, architectural guru Dan Cruickshank, Iain Sinclair (Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire: A Confidential Report), ...
Hotel Koruna
Opatovicka
Prague
29th July 2009
Dear Damek,
I am in Prague! Surprised? I am. I’m here for the weekend, till Sunday, arriving this morning. Yesterday I ...
I was there when he took his last breath, and God forgive me, I captured it within the soul glass …
Monsieur Etienne had been ill for days. His ragged breath ...
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The carter left me too early, and I had to walk up the hill, dragging my bags. The house was black against the sky by then, and the moon was ...
To quote Jean Paul Sartre:
“I would have taken the job in the tampon factory…
But I knew there were strings attached.”
December 1978. London smelled like a city gone bad. Rubbish had ...
There was a message from Gertrude Stein the day he arrived back in Paris. The desk clerk at his hotel gave him the card. It had a picture of a ...
