June 2016

  • https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/apr/01/featuresreviews.guardianreview7 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/152461.Catherine_the_Great http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/catherine-the-great-love-sex-and-power-by-virginia-rounding-6105034.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3651156/More-than-a-monumental-libido.html  

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  • Lawrence Durrell in Justine (Faber Fiction Classics) on the poet Cavafy: [Balthazar] had been a fellow-student and close friend of the old poet, and of him he spoke with such warmth and penetration that what he had to say always moved me. ‘I sometimes think that I learned more from studying him than I did…

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