The White Stuff

I’m going to shut my eyes and you are going to write down your three favourite musicals.

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Forty Years On

If you walk into the study on the ground floor at Barmeath there is a black Bakelite switch inside the door.

Francesc Català Roca

The photograph on the cover of the Eland edition of Voices of the Old Sea is arresting.

Cavafy and Hockney

Hockney was in his early twenties when he made a series of paintings and etchings inspired by CP Cavafy’s poetry.

Beasts and Super-Beasts

In 1914, HH Munro, better known by his pen name Saki, published a collection of short stories, Beasts and Super-Beasts. The title parodies Man and Superman by GBS. Some of the stories are well known but you may not have read, or have forgotten, The Unkindest Blow.

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