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Evacuated from Blitz-battered London, the shy Elizabeth White is sent to stay with the O'Connor family in Kilgarret, Ireland, where she strikes up an unlikely friendship with the lively, boisterous Aisling O'Connor. It feels like Maeve Binchy has clearly wanted to write what is her genuine experience of Irish and English people. ' TOM HANKS _ A FRIENDSHIP NOTHING COULD DESTROY. ![]() Summary: 'Maeve Binchy! I love her stories and have since Light a Penny Candle. ![]() ![]() When Zelle went bankrupt, he and his wife separated, and when Margaretha was 14, Antje died. Because I had researched the colonial period in Indonesia extensively for another book She writes, “revious biographers had neglected her married years in the Dutch East Indies. Shipman prudently resists racing ahead, like a teen reading “Lady Chatterley,” to the steamy bits and begins with a thorough investigation of her subject’s early life. Yet as Pat Shipman makes clear in her new biography, “Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari,” the case was prosecuted chiefly on grounds of immorality and her conviction based on questionable evidence. Margaretha Geertruida Zelle MacLeod, as she was known before reinventing herself as a glamorous and overtly sexual dancer, was executed by a French firing squad in 1917 after being convicted of spying for Germany. ![]() ![]() Uncertainty, it turns out, is a vital part of Mata Hari’s story. I knew Mata Hari had been a spy, though for whom, and when, remained hazy. ![]() Its cartoon backdrop showed a brunette, supine on a tiger-skin rug and wearing bejeweled underwear, offering a debonair fellow a secret map. UNTIL a few weeks ago, much of what I knew of Mata Hari I’d gathered from an eponymous pinball machine I’d played as a child. ![]() Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari ![]() ![]() But you will have no jealousy at all about sharing the Friendship. ![]() If one who was first, in the deep and full sense, your Friend, is then gradually or suddenly revealed as also your lover you will certainly not want to share the Beloved’s erotic love with any third. ![]() But this, so far from obliterating the distinction between the two loves, puts it in a clearer light. And conversely, erotic love may lead to Friendship between the lovers. Indeed, unless they are physically repulsive to each other or unless one or both already loves elsewhere, it is almost certain to do so sooner or later. ![]() “When the two people who thus discover that they are on the same secret road are of different sexes, the friendship which arises between them will very easily pass – may pass in the first half hour – into erotic love. ![]() ![]() ![]() The only man who never lets her down: John Lennon, her lifelong muse. Her abrasive humor is exhilarating - more Fleabag than Please Kill Me. She rolls through motherhood, cancer, and divorce, only to realize she needs to get back to her guitar. But by the early Eighties, it’s all over - Viv’s an anonymous aerobics teacher, wondering what the hell happened. Clothes Clothes Clothes Music Music Music Boys Boys Boys is her tale of fighting her way into rock & roll as a rebel girl - starting a band with Sid Vicious, dating the Clash’s Mick Jones, idolizing Patti Smith and Yoko Ono, inspiring future generations of feminist punk. I’m a bit of both.” Viv Albertine helped shape London punk as the wild-child guitarist of the Slits, striking her warrior pose on their album cover. “Anyone who writes an autobiography is either a twat or broke. ![]() ![]() ![]() The app is free to try, though it's prohibitively expensive if you want to purchase everything. Now, a company named Toytek has begun to bring the book to the iPad, and it allows you to interactively explore some of Wilks' paintings and their extremely deep complexity.Īs you can see above, it's wild you tap on an item, enter the actual name, and then the book will tell you whether it's right or provide clues for the word you're looking for. ![]() ![]() The book was part of a competition with a big cash prize, which was solved in 1988, when Wilks published The Annotated Ultimate Alphabet it included descriptions and clues for each of the items hidden in the extremely detailed paintings. There are more than 7,777 words represented in the book, with lots more little secrets hidden in the paintings there are letters encoded in Morse code or semaphore, obscure symbolism, and visual gags. Back in 1986, artist Mike Wilks published a book called The Ultimate Alphabet, which featured 26 different paintings, each filled with items that corresponded to the letters of the alphabet the letter A painting contains airplanes, ants, an apple tree, and so on. ![]() ![]() ![]() Writer Juliette Towhidi is adapting the script for television her previous credits include “Calendar Girls”, “Death Comes to Pemberley,” “Testament of Youth” and “The Essex Serpent.” Throughout the show, Nan discovers that her life becomes entwined with Christie’s in ways that neither could ever expect. Ridley will play Nan O’Dea, the mistress of Christie’s husband, who the series will center on. The series is set to be a reimagining of Agatha Christie’s 11-day disappearance in 1926, which mirrored many elements of the mystery genre the late author was known for. ![]() Daisy Ridley will star in and executive produce the series adaptation of Nina de Gramont’s best-selling novel “ The Christie Affair” for Miramax TV, which is set to develop and produce the murder mystery. ![]() ![]() ![]() And if you do like dark, don’t waste another moment not reading Summers brilliant debut novel. The violent misogyny of how women’s bodies are packaged for consumption. The vulgarity of slaughtering, processing, and eating meat. Like some of my other favorites this one might not be for everyone but even if you don’t always like dark, the descriptive language alone is enough to keep anyone engaged. A Certain Hunger is about the need to consume. How did she become a ruthless killer? Did her victims have it coming? Will she ever find the perfect duck confit? I had to know. You know she did it, you know she gets caught, and yet I still found this to be a page turner. In a literary canon rife with novels glorifying sadistic men, that alone is worth applauding. It checked all the boxes.ĭorothy Daniels is a food critic with all the descriptive language skills needed to tell her story of love, lust, murder and a smidgen of cannibalism. ![]() So, when I came across a book from the perspective of a murderous food critic, it instantly jumped to the top of my TBR pile. Yes, I do enjoy a little dark in my books, but above all I love a deep dive into the minds of interesting characters. It’s well known among the store staff and volunteers that my reading picks tend to pivot to the macabre. ![]() |