In reviewing The Sense of an Ending, one critic – OK, it was Camilla Long in the Sunday Times – wrote: “It’s a story about loo...
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Last week saw the appearance of the debut issue (styled May 2017) of The Amorist, the brainchild of Rowan Pelling, previously founder of the Erotic R...
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This is a story about a serial comma. No – please stay with it; I promise it won’t put you into a coma. This particular piece of punctuati...
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Howard Jacobson is a past winner of the Man Booker Prize, in 2010 for The Finkler Question. His latest novel, the cover of which is shown on the home ...
Read MoreFICTION: Often funny but in parts perhaps more grim than Grimm
Last September 30, the London bakery scene got a new inhabitant. Dominique Ansel, a French-American chef who established his reputation at his eponymo...
Read MoreFOOD: The sweet bakery creation that is a cronut
This summer is likely to see a great deal of media attention devoted to the small Atlantic island of Bermuda. It will be staging the 35th America’s ...
Read MoreFOREIGN: Beautiful Bermuda – not only for the boating
I mentioned in a previous ‘flying’ blog about the time I left my seat to go and get a good view of the Matterhorn, the most spectacular pe...
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You have probably heard it said that fashion is a load of rubbish and you may well agree with the sentiment. Certainly, for the purposes of this blog,...
Read MoreFASHION: Trash talking but not just any old waste of space
You will probably have seen the news and the sensational headlines a couple of weeks ago. Voters in Britain had been asked to go back to the polls in ...
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