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Bond writer's secret service to protect archirectural heritage
When architect Erno Goldfinger knocked down some old cottages, James Bond writer Ian Fleming used his literary licence to kill, writes Gerald Isaaman
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Treading a path through the moral maze of Arab writing - WRITING this novel left Egyp tian author Man soura Ez-Eldin wracked by doubts. Not just because it was ...>more
Blunt message from Pinter has a sting in tail - I AM Twenty People! edited by Mimi Khilvati and Stephen Knight (Enitharmon £8.95) is the latest Poetry School ...>more
Adoring audience for a dark mind - JODI Picoult is not quite an overnight sensation – she points out that she has been writing for 15 years – but her fame certainly ...>more
Stories behind closed doors - TO many people they are eyesores, signs of a decaying and decrepit city – London at its worst. But for photographer Paul Talling...>more
Hats off to a portrait of the city’s past - THE men all wear hats and stare curiously at the camera, the lens still a novelty on the city streets of the mid-19th century.>more
Colourful life of Red Princess - AS Sofka Zinovieff was mourning the death of her grandmother, she remembered a gift the ageing Russian who she had been ...>more
Parliament’s grand designer - WHILE many have heard of him, few people know exactly who Pugin was and what he did. Rosemary Hill’s book God’s Architect fleshes ...>more
Leaving no Livingstone unturned - THROUGHOUT 1980, Ken Livingstone’s busy assassination squad had me high in their sights. I was, my comrades, ...>more
The shadow boxing Naipaul refuses to pulls any punches - IN his new book, A Writer’s People: Ways of Looking and Feeling – an unlikely potboiler – Nobel ...>more
Extraordinary true life Deedes of legendary Boot of the Beast - IN the obsessive ego culture of old Fleet Street (and probably new Fleet Street) where fantasy raced ...>more
Did you know? A secret history for the Bard’s birthday - The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare is the book with which to celebrate the Bard’s birthday this ...>more
The Clerkenwell chronicles - THAT great campaigner for the poor Wat Tyler took his followers to Clerkenwell in 1381, as did the early trade unionists, the Tolpuddle ...>more
A genius that flowered in the trenches- IF the First World War still has a terrible glamour about it, it could be said to lie in its poetry. We have heart-rending work by ...>more
Stellar drinkers of England - FERGUS Linnane has written a sharp, funny and interesting history of this great public pleasure of the English – drinking. We live in joyless...>more
Poetry: ‘Gossip’ and ‘Mismatched shoes’ written by ‘pigs’ - FOR the serious poet, art is anything but therapeutic,” said the Torriano poet Leah Fritz in the poetry ...>more
How they’re sneaking the NHS into private hands - CONFUSE and Conceal is a clear exposition of what is happening to the NHS. > more
Tapping into mind of Sillitoe - MICHAEL Cullen is a womanising criminal, a con man with an eye for an easy score, a strip club enforcer, chauffeur for a gangland... > more
Last Post echoes from the trenches - I REMEMBER as a lad sitting in the pilot’s seat of a shot down Junkers 88 in a field outside the Spitfire station at RAF Wittering... > more
A trove of things that you may not know- THIS is a ragbag of riches of more than 5,500 entries. Here are just to give you a few samples. Did you know The Bell ...>more
Reading the fuzzy line between pornography and eroticism - SEX wasn’t something you talked about in nice Jewish households when I was growing up... > more
Cue for a television phenomenon - I WAS at the 2001 Benson and Hedges Masters snooker final at a packed Wembley Arena. > more
Mystery of little Willie Starchfield - EVERYONE knows about the tragic disappearance of Madeleine McCann and the brutal murder of Milly Dowler... > more
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