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Explosive truths of the war
Peter Richards was more interested in staying alive than liberating France, but a trip to the cinema convinced the soldier he had to fight the Nazis,
writes Dan Carrier
FOR Peter Richards, then a 20-year-old Kentish Town lad, the moment the bomb hit ... > more |
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Heavy tread into virgin territory - THIS is half a book, and a remarkable novella as such – one that examines in detail all the elements of love and lust on a honey moon ...>more
In search of strangers - THE novelist Evelyn Waugh once created a fictional young woman prone to travel, who would send back cryptic postcards from exotic places. ...>more
Thoughts for the day on a brave bishop - HERE are many paradoxes that lie unsolved in this insightful biography of Richard Harries, the recently retired ...>more
A half life lost inside the Shelley closed circle - POOR Fanny Wollstonecraft. We don’t even know what she looked like; only the off-hand remarks... > more
Letters from a poet’s heart - HE was small, modest, shy, the apologetic son of pathetically poor immigrants from Lithuania. The handful of books about... > more
Inside the mind of a lyrical iconoclast - LEAVING Shakespeare out we must sometimes ask: “Who is the greatest English poet?” In considering... > more
It was the best of times and the worst of times - CHRISTOPHER Barker is the son of the writer Elizabeth Smart and the notorious poet, George Barker... > more
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Sixty, and still single - ON August 15, India will celebrate the 60th anniversary of independence from Britain. To the surprise and satisfaction... > more
One man’s comedy of terrors - IS it journalism or stand-up? The political activist Mark Thomas’s show blurs the boundaries to great effect... > more
Step-by-step guide to making a movie - MAKING a movie was once an elitist, prohibitively expensive activity that the average person could only dream of... > more
Republican Foot, the admirer of the Queen - Vanessa, his terrier dog, regularly sat on the back seat of the chauffeur-driven car when Michael Foot left Whitehall... > more
Sir Sydney’s garden for the gardenless - THE party was a knees-up fit for the newly crowned king. Scantily clad satyrs danced around a fountain that had... > more
John Major’s ‘slush puppy for the very rich’ - PRIME ministers and cooking prove to be a recipe for disaster in Peter Gladwin’s entertaining new cookery book... > more
Thatcher’s children - AS someone who was a member of all Margaret Thatcher’s Cabinets, I was naturally fascinated to read Simon Jenkins’ book. > more
A pictorial history of St Joan’s theatre workshop - A BLEAK November day in 1953 in Stratford, east London, heralded a momentous day in the theatrical and... > more
Pick up a Penguin, or a Bob Dylan... - PETER Stothard is the former editor of The Times and the current editor of the Times Literary Supplement. He is also on the... > more
Michael’s fantasy island for kids and grown-ups - IT is perhaps not surprising to find one of our greatest children’s writers has shared his home with hundreds of... > more
The last of the fierce, individual history boys - THE last time I saw him he was hurrying down Hampstead Road looking more than ever like the White Rabbit in the... > more
Funnyman Griff’s journey to his past - IT is remarkable how objective history is, says Griff Rhys Jones. “It is an obvious point,” he says, “but one which really came... > more
The women who are far from veiled - IF you believe what you read then you probably imagine Arab women are quiet victims of oppressive, hopelessly... > more
Who’s ever heard of Mr Virginia Woolf? - THE only time I met the famous art critic Kenneth Clark (Lord Clark of Civilisation), he told me that for him there were... > more
The twelve days which shook Victor’s world - HUNGARY and Hampstead play a vital role in the life of Victor Sebestyen. It was in Budapest that he was born... > more
The enigma that was Katharine Hepburn - WE were sitting in the Californian sunshine, Spencer Tracy and I, in orange canvas chairs outside a Bel-Air mansion... > more
Send in the clowns – but no elephants - ONCE upon a time there was a circus, which had no performing animals apart from a duck who would quack to the sound... > more
Romeo and Juliet who fled the Nazis in a boat -
MICHAEL Arditti did not set out to write a parable. But his new novel A Sea Change is more than just a love story. > more
A true free spirit of the Middle East - BOMBS over Beirut, bullets across Baghdad: Abdelrahman Munif must be wailing in his grave. > more
Victorian masses and leisure principle - THE consumer society, says Judith Flanders, starts here. With the Great Exhibition of 1851. It was launched, to the... > more
The dutiful daughter of our greatest writer - SHE was the third child of ten, the second daughter of England’s greatest novelist and social campaigner... > more |
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