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Fancy a copy of A Death on Rembrandt Square by Anja de Jager AND some Amsterdam Koekjes (cookies)? Look no further! Guilty until proven innocent . . . It’s hard for anyone to have their work scrutinised in public. For...
Swan Song by Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott, novel set mainly in Manhattan. Who was Truman Capote? We all know the film Breakfast at Tiffany’s but who really has engaged with the writer of the novella on which the film was based?...
Taxi Tales From Paris by Nicky Gentil, taxi memoir set in Paris. Encounters in taxis can often be entertaining and occasionally sobering. Nicky Gentil was inspired to write her short stories, brought together in this book, by Adam Gopnick’s...
I’ve just got back from God’s Own Country, spending a few days in the glorious Yorkshire Dales with HF Holidays and their guests on the inaugural Brontë Book Club Weekend. I was there in my role as Editor of...
Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann, a picaresque novel set in 17th Century Germany. Translated by Ross Benjamin. Of course I had heard of Tyll Ulenspiegel (also Till Eulenspiegel), a mythical will-o-the-wisp character who flamboyantly weaves his way through war ravaged...
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