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by Philip Spires - 2007-08-29
This is not a review of Losing Nelson or England, England, or a record of visits to Chester. As the title claims, it's a reflection, a few observations on culture and identity seen through Engli...
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by Philip Spires - 2007-09-07
Festival - Nits de la Mediterrania, La NuciaTwentieth Century BalletsThe final concert of the inaugural La Nucia arts festival took place last night. Starting at 10:30pm, it was staged in the to...
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by Philip Spires - 2007-09-07
In offering a review of a novel by William Boyd I could certainly be accused of bias. I would proudly plead guilty, since I regard him as one of just four or five British writers who are capable...
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by Philip Spires - 2007-08-29
The title of Mission's first chapter is Michael. Here is how it starts ...Enter Michael, dishevelled and panting. His movements are hurried, agitated and anxious. The kitchen door creaks on its ...
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by Philip Spires - 2007-09-07
It is not often that a novel comes to hand that has been prized, praised and pre-inflated. Half of a Yellow Sun was in that category when I opened it and began to read. And I was captivated imme...
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by Philip Spires - 2007-09-07
George Edalji (that's Ay-dal-ji, by the way, since Parsee names are always stressed on the first syllable) is the son of a Staffordshire vicar of Indian origin and his Scottish wife. George is t...
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by Philip Spires - 2007-10-02
I don't read a lot of history, contemporary or otherwise, and when I do, it is usually in the area of political economy. In recent years, for instance, I have delighted at the scholarship and in...
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by Philip Spires - 2007-10-08
Anne Tyler's Breathing Lessons is a giant of a book, a giant because of the way in which it gently wraps you into its character's world and allows you to feel their lives being lived. It's a gia...
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by Chris Haycock - 2007-10-22
It is not commonly known, except of course amongst Sherlock Holmes afficionados, that the illustrator responsible for the sketches that accompanied the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s most f...
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by Philip Spires - 2007-10-19
I have visited Turkey, but not Istanbul. It's one of those iconic places that keeps cropping up in travel plans, but then gets overlooked, possibly because its name fits so easily into my though...
