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    Enigmatic ‘miracle man’ helped the ‘incurable’

    Review: András Pető, edited by G. Maguire and A. Sutton

    • 21. November 2012 - by Bob Dent in Books

      On 1 April 1986 the BBC broadcast a documentary called Standing up for Joe. It was about Joe Horsley, a boy with severe disabilities, who had gone with his[…]

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    Vivid recollections by a remarkable man

    Review: Memoirs of a Revolutionary by Victor Serge

    • 9. October 2012 - by Bob Dent in Books

    Without doubt this is one of the best, most readable and most informative memoirs written by a European political revolutionary and writer active in the first half of the 20th[…]

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    Making mealtimes more Magyar

    Review: Hungarian Cookbook by Tamás Bereznay

    • 30. September 2012 - by Bénédicte Williams in Books

    Think “Hungarian food” and for most people it’s the goulash that springs to mind, or a spicy red fish soup, perhaps served at a restaurant in a mock one-person bogrács[…]

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    Vivid debut novel set in halcyon 1990s Hungary

    Review: The Book of Summers, by Emylia Hall

    • 5. August 2012 - by Bénédicte Williams in Books

    Lake Balaton is the highlight of Hungarian summers, a place of sunshine, swimming, fried fish and lángos, and, depending on the shore, party towns or vine-covered hill slopes. That’s not[…]

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    Worthy look at issue of society’s outsiders

    Review: The Gypsy ‘Menace’. Populism and the New Anti-Gypsy Politics, edited by M. Stewart

    • 4. August 2012 - by Bob Dent in Books

    This is a lengthy, scholarly work – though in the main it is not difficult to read. It deals with a serious and disturbing issue that has come to the[…]

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    An important moment omitted by history

    Review: Hungary 1930 and the Forgotten History of a Mass Protest, by Bob Dent

    • 14. July 2012 - by Bénédicte Williams in Books

    Last Saturday some 3,000 marched down Andrássy Avenue in the annual Budapest Pride Parade with its train of music and colours. For anyone living or passing by, the signs that[…]

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    Stylish guide to explore landmark buildings

    Review: Hungarian Art Nouveau Architecture, by Béla Bede

    • 22. June 2012 - by Bénédicte Williams in Books

    On Ajtósi Dürer sor, on a side of this quiet District XIV street opposite City Park, stand two buildings remarkable for their size and degree of ornamentation. One is a[…]

    The Ukraine Carpathians

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    Thin but rare guide to Ukrainian wilderness

    Review: The Ukraine Carpathians: Europe’s last great wilderness, by Alexander Stemp

    • 12. June 2012 - by Bénédicte Williams in Books

    For many people these days one word is likely to spring to mind when Ukraine comes into the conversation: football. Boycott, too, might come up among those acquainted with the[…]

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    Novel’s twists fill in modern Greek history

    Review: The Thread, by Victoria Hislop

    • 2. June 2012 - by Bob Dent in Books

    Greece is in turmoil. That much we know, or at least that’s what we constantly hear. The specific causes are not so well-known, even though newspapers often run Q&A columns[…]

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    A sorry tale of poor politics, chapter after chapter

    Review: Hungary: Between Democracy and Authoritarianism, by Paul Lendvai

    • 19. May 2012 - by Bob Dent in Books

    This is a disturbing book, liable to upset a lot of readers, although for quite different, even contradictory reasons. Supporters of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his ruling Fidesz party[…]

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