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Woven Song—Liane Strauss’s ‘The Flaws in the Story’

May 30, 2024

In a world of spoilers, ignorance can be a superpower. And so it was when I visited Sir John Soane’s …

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Town Called Malice – Formerly by Tamar Yoseloff and Vici MacDonald

May 4, 2013

In the days before mobility scooters, it was the ornaments and the net curtains, running in ribbons along the terraces …

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Lingerie in London – Me and the Dead by Katy Evans-Bush

August 14, 2012

Buy Me and the Dead from Salt To live on a narrowboat is to live in a world of either …

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The smell of the underground – Tobias Hill’s Nocturne in Chrome and Sunset Yellow

July 22, 2012

Buy Nocturne in Chrome and Sunset Yellow from Salt Forget Eliot’s crowd of commuters flowing over London Bridge. Today’s city …

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