Parisian cafes could become cauldrons of conversation and thought…
Read MoreDo you mean to tell me you don’t believe in second-sight, or ghosts, or anything of that kind?
Read MoreThe colonial Kenya narrative with the strongest retrospective stamp is the 1982 book White Mischief…
Read MoreHow many women have had to contort themselves into a particular image of an adventurous woman?
Read MoreRemember you can have what you ask for, ask for everything…
Read MoreFire was, for Louisa Atkinson, a reality of life in the Australian wilderness, and her attitude towards the bushfire made it much more than a plot contrivance…
Read MoreApproximately 250,000 priceless artefacts somehow escaped destruction by fire, water, moths and termite…
Read MoreFire, a defining feature of Australian history, might have been expected to produce a great storyteller…
Read MoreIt’s why the tourists arrive and why Time Out called Leith “one of the world’s coolest neighbourhoods”; why the sky is permanently blue…
Read MoreScholars exploring ideas of literary empathy are particularly interested in Lee’s work…
Read MoreReading one’s own old books is always a queer sentimental experience…
Read MoreJervase Marion knew it all so well, so well, this half-fashionable, half-artistic Anglo-American idleness of Venice, with its poetic setting and its prosaic reality…
Read MoreThe sun had not yet risen. The sea was indistinguishable from the sky…
Read MoreIt is gloomy in this world, gentlemen!
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