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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Laying a Nest Egg

If you are a UK tax payer at this time of year you are an Ethelred (unready), a Cincinnatus (prepared) or an ostrich.

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