Here and There – Myanmar
Here and There – Myanmar I have been to several countries where I have not been able to speak the local language. With smiles, [...]
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04, 2023
The Leopard
The Leopard Memorable novels are not just dramas. At one level they tell a story, of course, as they invite you into another world, [...]
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04, 2023
Here and There – Malaysia
Here and There – Malaysia What is it about Malaysia? I’ve written about the country on previous occasions, but looking back over the many [...]
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03, 2023
Here and There – 2045
Here and There – 2045 Despite some squabbles as to whether it began in 2000 or 2001, by the time 2001 was under way, [...]
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12, 2022
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf In writing about Virginia Woolf, I’m going to take the easy way out. I will avoid talking about her novels. It’s a [...]
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12, 2022
Here and There – Russia
Here and There – Russia When people write about their parents, they often relate key events during their upbringing, describing the outstanding moments, some [...]
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11, 2022
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut When I first read Slaughterhouse-Five, way back in the 1970s, I knew almost nothing about postmodernist novels and their importance as a [...]
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11, 2022
Here and There – Bermuda
Here and there – Bermuda There are many anomalous places in the world, but Bermuda has to be one of the more unusual. Before [...]
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10, 2022
Here and There – Papua New Guinea
Here and There – Papua New Guine I first visited Papua New Guinea at the beginning of the 1980s. Working for Shell, I was [...]
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10, 2022
Here and There – Eire
Here and There – Éire To someone brought up in England, the west coast of Ireland, Éire, always seemed exotic and different. This was [...]