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06/05/2019:

• A review of Schimmen rond de Parula (Ghosts Around Parula) by F Springer

  "F Springer was the pen name (Dutch writers seem to like their pen names) of Carel Jan Schneider, a civil servant and diplomat who spent his childhood in the Dutch East Indies, and worked for three years as an administrator in western New Guinea before his career moved him elsewhere. He draws on his knowledge of the Indonesian archipelago in this fascinating and sobering tale of cultural conflict..." More

• Photos.

A session at HPP

Bingley

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27/04/2019:

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Yorkshire

Action shots of fenland cycling

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17/04/2019:

A review of I Can't Stay Long by Laurie Lee

"Laurie Lee acquired fame with his first volume of autobiography, Cider with Rosie, in 1959 - an evocative account of his childhood and youth in the idyllic Gloucestershire hills. I was one of thousands of late-twentieth-century English schoolchildren forced to read it at too young an age..." More

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10/04/2019:

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Lincolnshire

Yorkshire

Cambridge

Wales

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23/03/2019:

A review of Loners by Sula Wolff

"The term "Asperger's Syndrome" is in common use today, but back in 1995, there was no widely-accepted label for the psychological condition whose subjects are characterised by solitariness, the pursuit of obsessive interests, and difficulties in social interaction. We all knew the type, though - the "nerd"..." More

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06/03/2019:

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Waltham, Massachusetts, and a bit of Connecticut	A week in Waltham, MA	A tour of the cradle of the American Revolution, Massachusetts	The North Shore of Massachusetts
Boston, Massachusetts	Flying home

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18/02/2019:

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Lee Valley Olympic course

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11/02/2019:

• A review of Olijfje by Helga Ruebsamen

  "Helga Ruebsamen was born to a German father and a Dutch mother in the Dutch East Indies. Her family was in the Netherlands when the Second World War broke out, and was unable to return home..." More

• A guest review of L'ordre du jour by Eric Vuillard

  "I read this Goncourt Prizewinning work in the original French, in which it is entitled L'ordre du jour. This term can also be rendered as 'The Agenda', which, as I hope to show, might in some respects be a better translation..." More

• What sort of thing happens on a Thursday? Now you can find out with the "Days of Week" Photos Statistics widget:

  

• Photos.

Wharfedale

Cambridge

Fens

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28/01/2019:

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Gunpowder Park, Waltham Abbey, Essex

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