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Thank you, Sophie Kinsella

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I was terribly sad to hear about the death at the age of just 55 of the wonderfully […]

December 15, 2025 Books, Culture

Found in Translation: the poetry in The Road to Sparta

In the documentary film The Road to Sparta, we took the slightly off-beam decision to turn to poetry […]

March 19, 2019 Books, Culture, Greece, Running, Spartathlon, Sport

Book Review – The Road to Sparta by Dean Karnazes

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My first encounter with Dean Karnazes came in the early summer of 2014. I was about to embark […]

December 28, 2016 Book reviews, Books, Greece, Running, Spartathlon, Sport

Book Review – Another Man’s War by Barnaby Phillips

Just a few hours after finishing Another Man’s War, I read a report on the Al Jazeera news […]

November 18, 2016 Books, History

Stallings takes on the men for Oxford poetry chair

The literary world is aflush, it seems, with ruddy-cheeked excitement at the election for the next Oxford Professor […]

June 4, 2015 Books, Culture, Greece, USA

Book Review – Running and Stuff by James Adams

It was a busy weekend of sport; the end of the Premier League season, England winning a Test […]

May 26, 2015 Book reviews, Books, Greece, Running, Spartathlon, Sport

Book Review – Ultra Marathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner by Dean Karnazes

Self-help books are all the rage. Titles like How to Write a Blog (must read that one when […]

July 17, 2014 Book reviews, Books, Greek sporting legends, Running, Sport

Book Review – Malcolm is a Little Unwell by Malcolm Brabant

Malcolm Brabant seems to have been around forever, his mellifluous voice always coming through loud and clear on […]

May 21, 2014 Book reviews, Books, Greece

Book Review – Calon: A Journey to the Heart of Welsh Rugby by Owen Sheers

The Green Man Festival is a wonderful occasion. It takes place every August in the gentle, rolling foothills […]

February 19, 2014 Book reviews, Books, Rugby union, Sport

Book Review: Life by Keith Richards

Once upon a time, before he became an international rock ‘n roll star and embraced everything that went […]

February 14, 2014 Book reviews, Books, Culture, Music

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