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Pyramus and Thisbe

These are the first books written by Nina Willner and Terry Hayes: Forty Autumns published in 2016 and I Am Pilgrim in 2012.

From Melbourne with Love

Boodle’s, founded in 1762, is one of the oldest London clubs. White’s, 1693, is easily the oldest and Brooks’s comes a close third, 1764.

Singing, on the Train

Two more titles from the Shelf Lives stable – both with a musical theme.

The Small Mansion

If I was thirty years younger and at least thirty times richer this is where I would live.

Two Secret Lives

It is April 1967 and Tony Scotland is working for ABC (in those days the Australian Broadcasting Commission) in Hobart, Tasmania.

On The Shelf

The books in Margravine Gardens are mostly in the study, the front bedroom, the kitchen and the back of the sitting room.

It never crossed my mind until this week but there are very few, if any, big cemeteries in central London. There is no space. Accordingly, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea bought 8.9 hectares at Gunnersbury in Hounslow in 1925. It was on the SE corner of Gunnersbury Park, owned then by the Rothschilds.

Utopia

Thomas More bought land stretching from the Thames up to the King’s Road in 1520. He chose this site as being midway between the King’s Thames-side palaces at Hampton Court and Greenwich. The house he built became known as Beaufort House after his execution. As you can see there were extensive grounds with gardens, orchards… Continue reading Utopia

The Moravian Church

For about twenty years I sat beside Tony at a dealing desk in the City.

A Terrible Beauty

Leon Uris specialised in popular historical fiction.

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