Friday, February 24, 2012

The Towers Of Silence by Paul Scott

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The Towers Of Silence, the third of Paul Scott’s Raj Quartet, is very much a novel about women. Set in India in the 1940s, the war impinges ...
Monday, February 20, 2012

From Cairo to Cape Town - A Home To Head For by Eric Olverson

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A Home To Head For is something of a marathon, not for the reader, but for the author, Eric Olverson. To be accurate, Eric’s tale is signifi...
Friday, February 17, 2012

The Day of The Scorpion by Paul Scott

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Just as history can’t be undone, innocence, once lost, can’t be retrieved. If history would allow, I would dearly love to read Paul Scott’s ...
Wednesday, February 15, 2012

The Jewel In The Crown by Paul Scott

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Paul Scott’s The Jewel In The Crown is the first of his tetralogy of novels on British India. These really were the last days of the Raj. An...

Joaquin Palomares and Bruno Canino playing Brahms, Grieg and Franck

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The joy of music is that it is new every time it is played. There is no such thing as a definitive version of anything. A composer indicates...
Sunday, February 12, 2012

Vermeer´s Hat by Timothy Brook

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Vermeer’s Hat by Timothy Brook is not really about Vermeer, or hats, or art for that matter. It’s a book about globalization sixteenth centu...
Wednesday, February 8, 2012

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

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When a book has won the Booker Prize and the film that it spawned has taken Oscars, the casual reviewer might be tempted to conclude that ev...