BIBLE
Transports of delight: 5 great Books about reading other Books
It wasn’t a plan particularly, but then that’s part of the joy of books – I never have a plan for what I’m going to
12th October 2014
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Graham Greene
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21st Century
Just when you thought it was safe to go back to spying… Charles Cumming’s A Colder War
It hardly needs saying, but spying did not stop with the collapse of Communism. But if spying continued, it naturally follows that so did betrayal. The
12th May 2014
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BOOKS/WRITING
A fresh (medium rare) perspective on horsemeat
While the world out there is contorting itself into ever more yogic twists about horsemeat being found in burgers, I thought a little contribution from
28th January 2013
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ARTS
Crisis in the Confessional from Graham Greene’s Human Factor
Maurice Castle is the wary protagonist of Graham Greene’s 1978 novel, The Human Factor. He works on the Africa desk for the British secret service. He
27th March 2012
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20th Century
The Saigon School of Missiology and Graham Greene’s QUIET AMERICAN
It is not just the victims of imperialism who easily identify its sins and blindspots. Those who have wielded and then lost empires are quick
4th January 2012
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20th Century
Q’s Espionage Festival: 1. Gordon Corera’s The Art of Betrayal
BBC Security Correspondent, Gordon Corera‘s new book, The Art of Betrayal – Life and Death in the British Secret Service covers ground that will be familiar to
11th October 2011
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For the sheer pleasure of it: evocative prose
I love some poetry – but I have to say that sometimes I find that it has been too refined, too worried at, too precious.
8th November 2010
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