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The Girl from the North Country is a play with music currently on a twelve week run at the Noel Coward Theatre in London’s West End, having transferred from the Old Vic where it was originally staged. We went to … Continue reading
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The early twenty-first century seems to be a fertile time for writing about the world around us. There are best-selling psycho-geographers, flaneurs and flaneuses and writers about the natural world. The urban environment, especially London, attracts many of them. Examples … Continue reading
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The recent post ( A Child’s Eye ) sent me back to two books which I read some time ago and which I have now thoroughly enjoyed re-reading. Both of them treat events of childhood, as seen through the eyes of a … Continue reading
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I have always enjoyed reading short stories. I know that many people prefer to read a novel, wanting a longer, supposedly ‘meatier’ read and, I confess, I like a long, dense read too. I always feel somewhat bereft when I finish … Continue reading
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I am an avid reader of novels historical, either novels set in the past, or which are informed by an historical event, or a novel in which history plays a part. I am, after all, trying to write one – Reconquista … Continue reading
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