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Title Stories: Winnie The Pooh by A.A. Milne
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Roll out the barrel
‘He was a wise man who invented beer,’ said Plato, although I imagine he had changed his mind by the…
One Afternoon
In Aljezur we took a walk And paused above the river where, Among the rushes, swifts and fish, We saw…
Title Stories: Winnie The Pooh by A.A. Milne
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Disciplined exoticism
Lewis Jones on Ian Fleming’s Jamaican retreat and the inspiration it provided for the Bond novels
What the eye don’t see
The best books by good writers — and Philip Ball is a very good writer indeed — are sometimes the…
Soothing the savage breast
Is it the feathers that do the trick? The severely truculent expressions on their faces? Or is it their ancient…
The Jane Austen of Brazil
When the American poet Elizabeth Bishop arrived in Brazil in 1951, she expected to spend two weeks there and ended…
Two Roads
There are the fast people who check their emails hourly, engage with Twitter and multi- task their way through the…
Through the looking-glass
On Monday 21 April 1760 Joshua Reynolds had a busy day. Through the morning and the afternoon he had a…
A ladies’ man in Moscow
Right at the outset of this autobiographical novel — in fact it reads more like a memoir — Ismail Kadare…
Confessional box
The TV chat show, if not actually dead, has been in intensive care for a while now, hooked up to…
Title Stories: A Clockwork Orange By Anthony Burgess
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Guilt trip
If you had to pick one emotion to characterise Australia’s attitude towards East Timor, it would be guilt. We are…
Two Roads
There are the fast people who check their emails hourly, engage with Twitter and multi- task their way through the…
Title Stories: A Clockwork Orange By Anthony Burgess
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Two Roads
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Title Stories: A Clockwork Orange By Anthony Burgess
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Taking no prisoners
The life of Kaiser Wilhelm II is also a guide to how to ruin a country, says Philip Mansel
Money to burn
The robber barons of the gilded age, at the turn of the 20th century, were the most ruthless accumulators of…
Bachelor girl
Call me a crazy old physiognomist, but my theory is that you can always spot a lesbian by her big…
Derring-do in Salonica
It is difficult to know whether Clive Aslet intended a comparison between his debut novel, The Birdcage, set in Salonica…
Bribery and seduction
‘No, we must go our own way,’ said Lenin. The whole world knows him as Vladimir, while he was in…
Pussy’s in the well
During the second world war, when not only food, but paper and artists’ materials were scarce, Peggy Angus made a…
