Prenez Garde

Primo Levi’s account of the year (1944/45) he was at Auschwitz was published in Britain in 1947 as If This is a Man. I can say no more – I haven’t read it but it is on order.

Reading Maketh a Full Man

These authors have recently been introduced to me. I have read the first in the Erast Fandorin and David Audley series and have all the James Marwood historical thrillers ahead of me.

Celia and Mamaine

Those of us who don’t write should be aware of the painstaking labour undertaken by successful writers.

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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.

The Prix Goncourt

I have not been to the Restaurant Drouant in Paris but the menu is enticing and it has a regular clientele.

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Two Secret Lives

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