I recently enjoyed reading Helen Dunmore’s book The Betrayal, the first book of hers that I’ve read. So I was sad to read that she is seriously ill with some form of cancer that has a poor prognosis. She has written an article about facing mortality.What do we leave behind when we die? she asks.
There’s a new book out about Raymond Chandler and his work called Raymond Chandler: The Detections of Totality by Fredric Jameson. You can read an article about it here.
The author Elizabeth Strout writes about her working day here.
The retired MP Roy Hattersley has written an article comparing Brexit with Henry VIII’s break with Rome. You can read it here.
And just because I love Bogart and Bacall below is a still from The Big Sleep.
An interesting article by Roy Hattersley – thanks for the link. I like the thought that Henry’s was a soft Reformation and Elizabeth’s a hard one.
Margaret,
Yes, I must admit that I would never have linked Brexit and the Reformation and I have no idea if there were any problems with trade post Reformation, as there definitely will be with Brexit.