Cruising
Cruising In an age when words take on increasingly diverse meanings, it can be challenging to make the nature of your intended topic clear. [...]
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12, 2025
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12, 2025
Brick by Brick
Brick by Brick It must be a strange sight for a young child, to be confronted by a pile of plastic bricks, with no [...]
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11, 2025
St Martins Cathedral Utrecht
St Martin’s Cathedral Utrecht Major cities across Europe become packed in the summer months. It’s not just Paris, Rome and Berlin: a day in [...]
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11, 2025
Barges
Barges When I was at school, I discovered and loved Cargoes, a poem by John Masefield: Quinquereme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home [...]
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10, 2025
Hagia Sophia
Hagia Sophia Seeing a great building is a fascinating experience. By a great building, in this case I mean one that is historic (there [...]
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06, 2025
Truth
Truth When Felipe Fernandez-Armesto wrote his book Truth, he added a comment at the bottom of the book cover: “A History and a Guide [...]
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03, 2025
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Sometimes to attempt to write about a book in just four pages is ridiculous, almost an affront to a work that demands a significant [...]
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12, 2024
The End of Time
The End of Time Nearly a quarter of a century later, it is hard to recall all the excitement – and angst – that [...]
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11, 2024
Fionavar
Fionavar Re-reading The Summer Tree, the first book in Guy Gavriel Kay’s Fionavar Trilogy is both a delight and a puzzle. The delight I’ll [...]
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07, 2024
The Railway Children
The Railway Children Remembering children’s books is a serendipitous exercise. In my case, some are established favourites, and so Pooh, Rat and Mole and [...]
