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  • Book, Caught in the Revolution, Petrograd 1917

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    Red stains in the snow

    “Caught in the Revolution, Petrograd 1917” by Helen Rappaport (Windmill Books/Penguin Random House)

    • 24. July 2017 - by CM in Books

    The centenary of the Russian Revolution in 1917 is an apposite time for a fresh book on this momentous event. Helen Rappaport, a British historian whose specialities include revolutionary Russia,[…]

    Book, The Krays, The Prison Years

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    Behind bars with Reg and Ron

    “The Krays, The Prison Years” by David Meikle and Kate Beal Blyth (Century/Penguin Random House)

    • 9. July 2017 - by CM in Books

    Truth can indeed be stranger than fiction, otherwise how to explain two murderous London gangsters becoming legendary household names after courting publicity and mixing with celebrities, then, when finally incarcerated,[…]

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    Book, Robbie Robertson

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    From the Hawks to The Band

    “Testimony” by Robbie Robertson (William Heinemann/Penguin Random House)

    • 5. July 2017 - by CM in Books

    In 1966 Bob Dylan concerts were booed on three continents as devotees berated their favourite folkie protest singer for “going electric” and hitting the road with a stompin’ rock band[…]

    The Sisters of Battle Road

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    A family at war

    “The Sisters of Battle Road” by J.M. Maloney (Corgi books)

    • 16. June 2017 - by CM in Books

    When the Second World War began In September 1939, the six young Jarman sisters were among the many children quickly evacuated from their London homes – in danger of Hitler’s[…]

    Book, Florence Foster Jenkins

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    Murderer of music

    “Florence Foster Jenkins” by Nicholas Martin and Jasper Rees (Pan Books)

    • 9. June 2017 - by BT in Books · Culture

    “If she loves music, why does she do this,” a sufferer asked after hearing one of Florence Foster Jenkins’ catastrophic singing performances.  Jenkins herself put it another way: “People may[…]

    JohnnyMarr

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    This charming man

    “Set the Boy Free” autobiography by Johnny Marr

    • 6. March 2017 - by BT in Books

    Manchester, summer 1968,  finds little Johnny Maher, almost five years old, staring through the window of Emily’s corner shop – as he did whenever he and Mum passed – at[…]

    56, The Story of the Bradford Fire

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    Suspicion raised over killer blaze

    • 27. September 2015 - by BT in Books

    Twelve-year-old Martin Fletcher narrowly escaped death on May 11, 1985 when 56 people died and at least 265 were injured in a devastating fire in Bradford City football club’s ramshackle[…]

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    I have to look into her soul for the secret

    Concluding our series of excerpts from Jaap Scholten’s Comrade Baron. A Journey through the Vanishing World of the Transylvanian Aristocracy, recently released in English by Corvina Kiadó. Scholten, a Dutch writer and journalist, has lived in Hungary since 2003. Comrade Baron is his first non-fiction work. It traces the lives of members of the Transylvanian aristocracy before and after March 1949, when the collectivisation of agriculture under the new communist regime included the expropriation and deportation of all large landowners.

    • 4. August 2013 - by rkinga in Books

    Uzon, March 2010 In an ice-cold castle I meet Zsigmond Mikes, a large, circumspect man, born in 1977 in Oradea, the Romanian town not far from the Hungarian border, who[…]

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    Everyone talked about that fairytale

    We continue our series of excerpts from Jaap Scholten’s Comrade Baron. A Journey through the Vanishing World of the Transylvanian Aristocracy, recently released in English by Corvina Kiadó. Scholten, a Dutch writer and journalist, has lived in Hungary since 2003. Comrade Baron is his first non-fiction work. It traces the lives of members of the Transylvanian aristocracy before and after March 1949, when the collectivisation of agriculture under the new communist regime included the expropriation and deportation of all large landowners.

    • 28. July 2013 - by rkinga in Books

    Fugad, March 2010 I’ve told Farkas Bánffy I’ll arrive at the end of the afternoon.  I take a narrow road southwards. It’s an unfamiliar route. In Transylvania the minor roads[…]

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    22 places where grapes do grow

    Review: Wine Regions of Hungary - 145 Highlights, by Béla Bede

    • 21. July 2013 - by Bénédicte Williams in Books

    Turn to any wine club outside Hungary and it is quite likely that, if there is any Hungarian wine on their list at all, it will be Tokaji. This is,[…]

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