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GIVEAWAY: 3 copies of The Modern Salonnière by Saxon Henry
4th October 2020
GIVEAWAY: – 3 copies of The Modern Salonnière by Saxon Henry
“Reading Saxon Henry’s new book feels like a best friend just took me by the hand to time-travel through history, alighting on the lives of fascinating creators; artists, poets, musicians, and writers” (J Locktov)
The Modern Salonnière is a collection of essays that combines Saxon Henry’s passions of traveling, reading, and creative nonfiction. Locale by locale and book by book, Saxon brings the historical figures she has chosen as her subjects to life. Stroll through Paris while imagining the era when the Emperor Julian the Apostate ruled Lutetia, parts of which still stand at the Thermes de Cluny. Walk London’s streets in search of the fin-de-siècle haunts where the Decadents were determined to turn convention on its ear. Trek to Croton-on-Hudson, New York, where Edna St-Vincent Millay summered with her avant-garde chums. Follow Peggy Guggenheim in Venice, Jim Morrison in Paris, Denys Finch-Hatton in Africa, Ottoline Morrell in Oxford, and Henry James in a string of Italian towns in Tuscany. These and many other characters who were inspiring enough that their stories continue to provoke curiosity people the narratives in The Modern Salonnière.
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- Which famous person – past or present – would you invite to your dinner party? Tell us in the comments below by midnight 24th October 2020 and the first 3 names out of the hat will be sent a copy each. Open to residents of Europe (that includes the UK, by the way!) and USA
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The winners are:
Maritravel
heathhog101
nespi
I’d invite Stephen Fry. The most brilliant, intelligent, entertaining and witty person
I would invite Sean Connery. I could listen to his voice all day long.
I would invite James Corden as he must have some great Hollywood stories to tell.
Winston Churchill
Elvis Presley
John of Gaunt
Caitlin Moran. She would be an utter hoot, and also very kind.
James Baldwin, a writer who was so ahead of his time and such an inspiration to the Civil Rights movement
I was about to say David Attenborough, but I see that was chosen in the previous comment, so instead I’ll invite Malorie Blackman
Sir David Attenborough – I could talk / listen to his voice for days on end!
i would invite florence nightingale to discuss the current pandemic !
I’m very shy, so I’d have to invite someone who talks a lot so I wouldn’t have to – hmmm, maybe Michael Palin.
Oooh it would have to be Road Dahl, i love all of his books 🙂
I’d invite Henry VIII – amazing stories
I would love to have Clive James at my dinner party. His wit and funny anecdotes would keep us entertained all night!
I would invite Anne Boleyn. She is my favourite person from history, I have so many things I want to ask her!
Richard Osman. I think he would be an amusing dinner guest.
Hello, I would like to invite Elizabeth Fry, who reformed prisons, to my dinner party because I think what she did was great and I bet she was very interesting. Thank you for the chance to win.
I would invite the late Bernard Levin. I always enjoyed his wit and intellect when I saw him on TV, but what I really admired him for was a book he wrote about travelling the length of the Rhine. It made me want to make the same journey one day, the descriptions of the people, places and customs he encountered along the way were so vivid.
I would invite Marie Curie. Would love to ask her about her life and research.
Nadezhda Mandelstam who was at the center of liberal Russia and married to the poet Osip Mandelstam. I’d like to hear her version of events under Stalin.
Albert Camus
Would have to be Boris Johnson, we would have alot to talk about!
I’d love to invite Leonardo da Vinci to my dinner table. What a thrill to converse with a genius!!
It would have to be the Dalai Lama! I love that man & would love to hear his views on how to bring about leace throughout the world!
To my dinner party? Michel Foucault! I would love to hear about how we are socially constructing 2020, the Covid19 pandemic and the ‘new normal’.