Emma |
Jane Austen (16 December 1776 – 18 July 1817)
Just in time for the start of the month, Wichtel Wolfram is back in No. 10.
He would even have moved in a night earlier, but unfortunately, as he wrote, he was unable to install his door, let alone make himself comfortable, as everything was clogged with toys, which he asked to be cleared away by the next evening.
Which of course happened immediately.
Anarchy's brief summer: the life and death of Buenaventura Durruti |
Never Let Me Go |
Kazuo Ishiguro *8 November 1954
German Autumn (1946) |
Stig Dagerman (5 October 1923 – 4 November 1954)
Code name Adler (Eagle) Klaus Barbie and the Western secret services* |
* Also highly recommended:
Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie, which in 1988 won Marcel Ophuls the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
Digging
Between my finger and my thumbThe last visitor |
* [For first time visitors]:
Typo in the title?
Nah. It's just that I would not let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.
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Máirtaín O'Cadhain (1906 – 18 October 1970)
The Swan |
Guðbergur Bergsson (16 October 1932 – 4 September 2023)