The Secret Annexe

A friend who read my anthology of diary entries in Advent and Epiphany recommends The Secret Annexe. The title references Anne Frank’s, The Secret Annex, a collection of fiction and non-fiction written while she was in hiding during the Nazi occupation of Holland.

Epiphany IV

“Sculpture/Relief. The Adoration of Magi. The figures, dressed in sixteenth century costume, are grouped in an architectural setting with a vault over them. In the centre of the vault is a star surrounded by five cherub’s heads, flanked by groups of a single angel and three angels reading. There are traces of blue paint in… Continue reading Epiphany IV

A New Year Resolution

I am and have almost finished reading Olivia Manning’s, The Balkan Trilogy: The Great Fortune, The Spoilt City and Friends and Heroes.

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The Angel’s Game

I recommend the novels of Arturo Pérez-Reverte Gutiérrez of which I have so far read only a few – see posts passim*.

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