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I was first elected to the Court of Common Council as a member for Farringdon Within in a by-election in March 2011, and was re-elected for a four-year term in March 2013. I am now seeking re-election for a further four-year term. There are 8 seats in Farringdon Within (it’s a large Ward), and 15
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I’ve just responded to an aspiring author on this topic, and thought it was worth sharing my advice (such as it is) more widely. Here’s what I told him: Here are a few thoughts based on my own experience of getting publishers/agents to be interested in my work. It’s always a struggle, as you have
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Herzog by Saul Bellow My rating: 5 of 5 stars Bellow wrote things in the 1960s one couldn’t write now, without howls of protest, more’s the pity. Here’s an example: ‘”My childhood was a grotesque nightmare,” [Madeleine] went on. “I was bullied, assaulted, ab-ab-ab … ” she stammered. ‘”Abused?” ‘She nodded. She had told [Herzog]
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Wise words on choices from Aldous Huxley’s Point Counter Point: Lucy shook her head. ‘Perhaps it’s a pity,’ she admitted. ‘But you can’t get something for nothing. If you like speed, if you want to cover the ground, you can’t have luggage. The thing is to know what you want and to be ready to pay
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Brompton Oratory, a hot lunch-time in July, a baby being received into the Catholic Church and Catholic upper-crust society; dressed-up, a group stands round the font. Otherwise the building’s almost empty, save a scattering of oddballs dotted round the nave, the occasional stray tourist fleeing from the sun. A little girl in blue and
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Subtitle: The Passion of the Last Tsar and Tsarina Rating: **** (4/5) Published: St. Martin’s Press, 2011 Format: Hardcover Genre: Nonfiction Source: Personal Collection I have read a number … Source: Alix and Nicky by Virginia Rounding
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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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When I was working on my last book Alix and Nicky: The Passion of the Last Tsar and Tsarina, I initiated a form of “crowd-funding” to help me finish it, and was fortunate that this met with a good reception from a number of friends who, in return for a contribution of £50, received the
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‘Progress!’ [Lord Edward] echoed, and the tone of misery and embarrassment was exchanged for one of confidence. ‘Progress! You politicians are always talking about it. As though it were going to last. Indefinitely. More motors, more babies, more food, more advertising, more money, more everything, for ever. You ought to take a few lessons in
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