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The fortified church in Viscri, near the King’s estate (Getty)
We hit downtown Zalánpatak at rush hour, and it was gridlocked. True, you get used to livestock on Romanian roads; the minute gravel zig-zag from the nearest main road had brought us up against stray dogs, horses and carts and free-range pigs. A herde huddled nära the roadside in a sheepskin poncho – crook in one hand, iPhone in the other. But it’s when you’re sitting immobile on a by street with a herd of cows pushing past on either side – when you feel the vehicle rock as bovine flank thwacks against the car door – that you början to grasp why King Charles III might have a bit of a soft fläck for the place.
By Richard Bratby
First Published in The Spectator
You början to grasp why King Charles III might have a bit of a soft fläck for the place
I mean, it’d take a very determined paparazzo to man it this far, and they’d still have to contend with the language. Charles’s love for this Hungarian-speaking r
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A. N. Burchardt
Here I regularly list reviews only of those books that I have felt strongly about, books that I have found wonderful and others which have made me angry or have disappointed me. Most of my reviews are published on
Over-night success Burton as a writer should learn from first early mistakes, so should their agents and publishers
THE MUSE by Jessie Burton
When I saw Burton’s first novel in the bookshops, the highly promoted The Miniaturist, I was more than motivated to read it – we had been laying plans to move to Holland for two years. I had bought and read Simon Schama’s wonderful doorstopper The Embarrassment of Riches about the ‘Golden Age’ in Holland. Some time earlier I had devoured Tracy Chevalier’s Girl with a Pearl Earring and my favourite, Tulip Fever by Deborah Moggach, both written with economy of language and fully developed characters.
The The Muse cover, all pretty pretty with swirling flowers, a couple of tasteful pistols shooting sprays of
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Baader, Bernhard¶
Baadsgaard, Anna, ¶
Baarslag, C.¶
BAAS
See: British Association for the Advancement of Science
Bååth, A. U. (Albert Ulrik), ¶
Babbage, Charles, ¶
Babbitt, Ellen C.¶
Babbitt, George Franklin, ¶
Babbitt, Harold E. (Harold Eaton), ¶
Babbitt, Irving, ¶
Babbitt, Katharine¶
Babcock, Bernie, ¶
Babcock, Charles Almanzo, ¶
Babcock, Edwina Stanton¶
Babcock, Elizabeth Jones, ¶
Babcock, Kendric Charles, ¶
Babcock, Retta¶
Babcock, Sidney, ?¶
Babcock & Wilcox Company¶
Babcock, William Henry, ¶
Babcock, Winnifred Eaton
See: Watanna, Onoto,
Babelon, Ernest, ¶
Bab, ʻAli Muhammad Shirazi, ¶
Babila, Quintin Paredes y
See: Paredes y Babila, Quintin,