This book, Flesh, is the sixth novel by the 51-year-old Hungarian/English author, David Szalay, who has previously been short-listed for the Booker Pr...
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In light of this blog’s generic name of f-factors, an idea occurred to me when reading about President Trump’s recent implementation of hi...
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My wife and I went for a short break to Florence last week. The weather was stunning – there may not have ben a cloud in the sky in the five day...
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My last foreign blog was about Sicily. So is this one, but it’s one with a difference. It involves the late Sicilian author, Andrea Camilleri, a...
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I don’t know about you but the animal I would most associate with Easter is a rabbit, as in the Easter Bunny. I remember being on holiday in Dorset ...
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About 18 months ago I was reading that the newest thing in women’s trousers was silver. Marks & Spencer received especially rave notices. (A...
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The previous, now ultra-disgraced, former president of FIFA, Sepp Blatter, notoriously said of his idea to launch the FIFA Club World Cup: “It w...
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I think the heading of this blog is certainly apposite: a review of a book of that title and a short story about such a premises in Camden Town, Londo...
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LIV Golf has come a long way, even if only as regards being a disruptor to the established running of men’s professional golf, since it staged its f...
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