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May 17, 2017

Athletic and the Chocolate Brownie

Following on from the previous post, in this entry I am delighted to present my own translation of an extract from the novel discussed...

May 9, 2017

Football, fiction and fame

Sport and fiction don’t always mix well. The attraction of sport is that the drama is real, truly unscripted and unpredictable;...

Apr 22, 2017

Art, literature and underrated cities

Fish and trees are alike (p7) Recently as part of a module on my masters course we were given an interesting task: we were let loose in...

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