Let’s begin with man
This 800 page riveting novel is in some senses one giant plea for simple, spontaneous, sincere kindness towards and between...
Caught in your own time
Time is a theme which enthralls me, in particular the extent to which we are shaped by our time (century,...
How to win a train ticket to Tashkent
This vast novel, full of war and suffering, also has moments of levity. Here we have someone refusing to curtail...
The assignations of stories
An interesting way to present the connectedness of stories and their meeting points, and curious about the meeting at corners...
Signal versus noise, then as now
A recurring theme for me is that of signal versus noise. The Information Age is awash with noise, but that...
My kinda cat – III
This is one memorable cat. Patrick Leigh Fermor had chance to observe the same big tom-cat every night in Athens...
Presents are for those who give
A generous dismissal of a recipient's need to feel worthy of a gift. Ruiz Zafón's book is full of generous...
How to help a bird fly
Wise words for human lives, all the more poignant for watching fledglings make mistakes and still persist in flying, even...
Anachronisms past and future
Perhaps one day the telephone, the wristwatch and haste will seem old-fashioned anachronisms, whereas here, in a library created before...
Seek and you shall find … something
A piece of sage advice - you will always find something if you look. But is it what you (thought...
The poet as compass
An enigmatic statement, perhaps born of the difficulty of pinning down Odysseus' journey on a real map, although there is...
An event, a happening
Mandelstam lived in a brutal place and time, costing him years of freedom and ultimately, his life. Â All the...
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