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The Borgias
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12 Apr 2011It is the strangest feeling, sitting at my computer in a little room in North London, watching spring 2011 outside the winter, surrounded by leaning towers of history books, as I sink myself into Rome five hundred years ago. At this moment I am in the coliseum, 1494, where on Good Friday they put on [...]
Nuns with nail varnish
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9 May 2010I suppose the best thing about life is the challenges it throws up. And if you had any idea quite how hard it might be, you would be tempted to say no. So maybe sometimes better not to know.
Last weekend in the one of the most surprisingly lovely churches in the city of Brighton a [...]
Half way across America
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15 Apr 2010Well, just when I thought I couldn’t stand another plane ride (why is it that every plane I take gets delayed) I hit Dallas and the Dallas Art Museum for the greatest gig in ages. Fabulous hall, big and intimate at the same time, an audience who were so up for talking history ( because [...]
heading out for the west coast ( with apologies to Dylan)
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6 Aug 2009Having been on the road with Sacred Hearts and the Renaissance for almost four weeks (how rich and interesting to carry a convent of women around with you in your head) I am due a short break on a small gulf island off he coast of British Columbia and Vancouver island. I will read, eat, [...]
interesting review blog on New Yorker site
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3 Aug 2009So, someone sent this to me today and I was fascinated to read it. : http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2009/08/sarah-dunant-bares-all.html
It is quite close to my heart because ,of couse, while the renaissance is known for its beauty and wonder, it was also a time of huge violence and brutality. That I certainly believe. And given the levels of pain [...]
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west and now east
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3 Aug 2009i think Lewis and Clark did it the other way around, yes but I finally arrive in the East. First Washington and a great NPR interview with Lianne Hanson, then Miami – Book and Books and one hell of smart audience firing on al cylinders – thank you Miami Now New York City To all [...]
seattle via the gulf islands
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21 Jul 2009first thing to note. It’s hot. Seattle sings in the sushine. i got here yestrday after a fantastic weekend at the Denman island Writers and Readers festival. If you don’t know about it and you live anywhere in British Columbia then check it out. The most beautiful place, the kindest most hospitable people and the [...]
getting ready to fly…..
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7 Jul 2009Which is hardest? Writing the book or working out what the hell to pack for six weeks on the road promoting it? I am coming to see the deep attraction of a nun’s habit, although of course they don’t get to go on the road. At the South Bank concert in London last week many [...]
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- The Borgias
- Back to the convent where it all started
- Nuns with nail varnish
- when women couldn’t sing
- Half way across America
- The last Waltz ( apologies to the Band)
- Another year another journey
- heading out for the west coast ( with apologies to Dylan)
- interesting review blog on New Yorker site