Blogs in June 2017

Something to read While Travelling- Thailand 15th June 2017

Something to Read While Travelling is an informative and entertaining companion to accompany you on your travels. Something to Read While Travelling-THAILAND Contains useful information about Thailand, some of which you won’t find in travel guidebooks. Enjoy learning about:...

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American Noir 2nd June 2017

Barry Forshaw is a leading expert on crime fiction and films from Britain and the European countries, but a further area of expertise is American crime fiction, film and TV. After the success of earlier entries in his ‘Noir’...

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Flashpoint Trieste 26th May 2017

In the last days of World War II, Allied armies in Italy race to beat Marshal Tito’s Yugoslav forces to the strategically vital Adriatic port of Trieste. The ancient city is now a major flashpoint in the new Cold...

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The Lonely City 9th May 2017

When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated by this most shameful of experiences, she began to explore the lonely city by way of art....

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Walking in Berlin 2nd December 2016

Franz Hessel was an observer par excellence of the increasingly hectic metropolis that was Berlin in the late 1920s. In Walking in Berlin, originally published in Germany in 1929, he captures the rhythm of Weimar-era Berlin, recording evidence of...

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