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Category Archive: Books

Book Review: 1915 The Death of Innocence

Plenty has been written and said over the last fortnight about the horrors and sacrifices that the men […]

November 26, 2013 Book reviews, Books, France, History

Book Review: The Final Whistle

Sports writing – and rugby in particular – has been guilty over the years of overborrowing phrases or […]

September 24, 2013 Belgium, Book reviews, Books, Culture, Dublin, France, History, Olympics, Rugby union, Sport

“So, er, do you like poetry?”

My children refuse to believe that there was a time before mobile phones and the internet. “Was it […]

September 3, 2013 Books, Culture, Dublin, Ireland, Trinity College

When we were Kids

Patti Smith has been rattling around my birdcage for a few years now. Last week I read her […]

May 19, 2013 Books, Culture, Greece, Music

What’s my Crime?

I don’t remember the first crime novel I ever read – probably something by Enid Blyton – but […]

April 18, 2013 Books, Culture

Face to face with cancer: Paul Johnston

I first met Paul Johnston when I was living in Athens; 2004 I think it was, in the […]

January 28, 2013 Books, Culture, Dryathlon 2013, Greece

Tragedy spurs Price to write

Pangbourne College is not a place for the feint-hearted. Or, at least it didn’t use to be. Set […]

July 4, 2012 Books, Culture, Pangbourne College

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