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St Paul’s (Knightsbridge) and the Great War

Monday, November 10, 2014

A blog piece for Culture House on the Royal Naval mobilisation of the Rev Wilfrid Hannay Gibbins, and the parish mags of a church in West London over the course of the First World War. — For The Spectator

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Eight debut novels

Monday, September 1, 2014

Currently sitting at 12 to 1 for this year’s Booker Prize, first-time novelist Paul Kingsnorth has set the cat among the pigeons through the disarmingly original expedient of submitting his offering in a fictional language. Composed in what Kingsnorth calls the ‘shadow tongue’ of ‘eald anglisc’, The Wake (Unbound 365pp £16.99) explores one angle of […]

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Paul, mate, you’ve got red on yer.

Friday, September 30, 2011

Interview with Paul Bettany, vis-a-vis his tricky and unglamorous role in Broken Lines. — For theartsdesk

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Our little secret – 2

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

When you explain to your girlfriend that your London degree is as good as mine from Oxford, I say nothing, and hope you both think I’m on your side.

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A little night reading

Friday, May 29, 2009

Nocturnes Five Stories of Music and Nightfall Kazuo Ishiguro faber and faber £14.99, 221p ISBN 978-0-571-24498-0 ‘Their talk was no longer just about music – though everything always seemed to come back to it.’ Whether as opening subject or illustrative decoration, music seems to be a recurring theme for Kazuo Ishiguro. The Unconsoled told of […]

Filed in Journalism, review | Also tagged Cole Porter, Elgar, jazz, Kazuo Ishiguro, literature, music, Music Teacher, Nocturnes, Ray Charles, saxophone, Venice | Comments (0)