His Excellency Eugène Rougon by Émile Zola — dark underbelly of political life
The political world depicted in His Excellency Eugène Rougon has a remarkable contemporary resonance. Nepotism, favouritism, lobbying and corruption in
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The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope —Curtain Falls On Old Friends
It took Anthony Trollope almost fourteen years to write The Chronicles of Barsetshire. It’s taken me about eighteen to read
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My one and only visit to Switzerland many years ago left a lasting impression of a country with Germanic-like efficiency
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#1954Club: She Who Was No More by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac
She Who Was No More was the first psychological thriller from the writing duo of Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac
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Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan — one man’s courage
There’s a moral dilemma at the heart of Claire Keegan’s haunting novella Small Things Like These. it’s a tale of
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