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Berlin City Lit by Heather Reyes
Category: Travel | Series: City-Lit Series
Introduction by Rory MacLean
Bookworms, Dog-Ears and Squashy Big Armchairs: A Book Lover's Alphabet by Heather Reyes
Category: Languages and Reference
Are you a xenophile? Which book dedications make us cry? What were the author events of Ancient Rome like? Why did the U.S. post ban Chaucer? Why do we like reading books in the loo? Are your books 'slightly foxed'? 'Bookworms, Dog-Ears and Squashy Big Armchairs: A Book Lover's Alphabet' is a hugely ent ...Show more
City-pick Istanbul by Heather Reyes
Category: Travel | Series: City-Pick Series
From Ohran Pamuk, Paul Theroux and Paul Bowles to Elif Shafak, Yashar Kemal and James Baldwin and over sixty other dazzling writers, some translated for the first time.
City-pick New York by Heather Reyes
Category: Travel | Series: City-Pick Series
F Scott Fitzgerald journeys up Fifth Avenue Bob Dylan and Suze Rotolo arrive in Greenwich Village Alistair Cooke looks out over Central Park David Byrne does the Five Boro Bike Tour Edmund White finds a city of freedoms Jan Morris recalls Manhattan 1945 Ian Frazier hears it for Brooklyn Teju Cole encoun ...Show more
City-pick St Petersburg by Heather Reyes
Category: Travel | Series: City-Pick Series
From Helen Dunmore, J.M Coetzee and Malcolm Bradbury to Joseph Brodsky, Alexander Pushkin and Fyodor Dostoyevsky - over sixty writers on St Petersburg, past and present.
Dublin - City-Pick by REYES HEATHER
Category: Travel | Series: City-Pick Series
Anne Enright reveals the poetry in the Dublin soul Elizabeth Bowen stays at the Shelbourne Brian Lalor is swept along by Bloomsday Joseph O'Connor takes a wry look at Dublin man Iris Murdoch evokes the Easter Rising Roddy Doyle pities the poor immigrant J P Donleavy shows us student Dublin Hugo Hamilton ...Show more
London - City-Lit by Heather Reyes
Category: Travel | Series: City-Lit Series
London is the world's most happening, most exciting and most diverse city. From Roman stronghold and mighty capital of the British Empire to financial powerhouse and city of the 2012 Olympics, London has always looked to the past and the future. And no one reflects this brilliant complexity better than ...Show more
Paris city-lit by Heather Reyes
Category: Travel | Series: City-Lit Series
Introduction by Stephen Clarke, author of A Year in the Merde
Venice - City-Pick by REYES HEATHER HED
Category: Travel | Series: City-Pick Series
Jan Morris arrives by sea Casanova crosses the ominous Bridge of Sighs Patricia Highsmith's Ripley gets his own palazzo Kazuo Ishiguro introduces the musicians of St Mark's Square D H Lawrence brings Lady Chatterley to Venice Geoff Dyer gets under the skin of the Biennale Sally Vickers' Miss Garnett cli ...Show more
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