Here and There – Italy
Here and There – Italy It is easy to believe that Italy was a country designed for tourists. Not all of Italy, perhaps. There [...]
Here and There – Italy It is easy to believe that Italy was a country designed for tourists. Not all of Italy, perhaps. There [...]
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Looking back twenty years, it’s difficult now to remember the first time I read Mark [...]
Here and There – New Zealand I am not really clear why I have spent so little time in New Zealand. Just across the [...]
Centuries Of Childhood There was a time, back in the 1960s, when any student wanting to show they were conversant with the latest thinking [...]
Here and There – Maryland, USA To explain why I spent time in Maryland requires something of a detour, both in time and place. [...]
The Empty Raincoat The Age of Unreason first appeared in bookshops in 1989. The front cover illustration was of a frog with a placard [...]
Here and There – France I wonder how often a blogger asks, “how much do I want to disclose?” Everything you write can offer [...]
Here and There – Norway Norway holds a special place in my heart, for reasons that go back to my school days. Recollections from [...]
Bridge to Terabithia Some books remain stuck in your memory, while others gently fade away. There is a moment at the beginning of Wind [...]
Theodore Zeldin Why am I attracted to people who deliberately place themselves out of the mainstream? As an undergraduate studying social anthropology, I had [...]