Monday, October 01, 2012
A good walk ruined
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Expressions not to be believed: the people who ring while you’re having dinner and say they’re not going to try to sell you anything. (I a...
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Monday, September 24, 2012
Hey diddle-dee-dee: a writer’s life for me
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ON November 17 last year – was it really that long ago? – I blogged about the mixed joys of finishing another book. Today, ten months lat...
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Friday, August 03, 2012
What's in a Name?
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My secret ambition is to have my name in The Oxford English Dictionary : it’s the literary equivalent of being nominated for the Booker Priz...
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Faulty Tower
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When researching the current work, Pisa seemed the obvious hub to access northern and coastal Tuscany: its railway station is on direct lin...
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Thursday, November 17, 2011
Here Today and Here Tomorrow
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You must have noticed, (he said presumptuously), that I’ve been less than diligent in my blogging this year. This is my excuse: it’s the li...
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Mr. Butterfly
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Watched a TV programme the other night in which Rick Stein talked about food in the context of Italian opera – just when you thought they’...
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Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Serendipity
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This is the Casa Magni, the beachside house in the Italian coastal village of Lerici, on the beautiful Gulf of La Spezia, to which the Eng...
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