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For me, like many people of a certain age, world events of the 1980s were accompanied, on television and sometimes on radio, by a sensible Englishwoman with an unidentifiable accent and a flat, clipped and precise delivery. The Tiananmen Square … Continue reading
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… though not quite pressing the flesh, this isn’t an election campaign. Clapham Writers, or some of us, were out on the streets of the capital this Bank Holiday Saturday promoting the Clapham Book Festival. Clad in our newly minted Clapham … Continue reading
…the romance of a certain place in a certain time, the attraction of an historic cause or an historic style. The discovery of a person who no one seems to have heard of, but who is so engaging and interesting, … Continue reading
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… is, of course, the title of the Man Booker prize-winning second book in Hilary Mantel’s historical series about Thomas Cromwell. She won the same prize for Wolf Hall, the first in the series, as well as a stash of … Continue reading
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Celebrate the book! Today – 23rd April – is World Book Day, celebrated in over 100 countries world-wide. Begun in Spain in 1923, by the Valencian writer Vincente Clavel Andres to honour the memory 0f Miguel de Cervantes ( 23rd … Continue reading
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