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Festival de Jerez 2018

Good news. The Programme for next year’s Festival, the twenty-second, is out now on the Ayuntamiento web-site. It runs from 23rd February to 10th March. It all begins with the National Ballet of Spain in Teatro Villamarta on Friday 23rd … Continue reading

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Metamorphosis

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Not Kafka but Kings Cross. The Kings Cross St Pancras part of North London has become synonymous with redevelopment in recent years. St Pancras is now the international station for Eurostar and the whole complex has been restructured to include … Continue reading

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Lincoln in the Bardo

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This year’s winner of the Man Booker Prize is a startling and engrossing read.  It’s astonishing that it’s George Saunders first novel. I haven’t read his short stories, though he was on my radar as a hugely skilled writer and … Continue reading

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Journey Through the Pinsapar

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It was tempting fate. Only two days after the most enormous storm, to go up into the mountains, to the rainiest place in Spain. It was twenty-three degrees when we set out from Jerez that morning. The sky was blue … Continue reading

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Inundation

First, watch this. I heard the first rumble of thunder at about eleven o’clock. I had been out with friends, sitting in an olive-tree-lined square where fountains played. The temperature was balmy, there was no indication of what was to … Continue reading