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The Original Secret History
To receive my first catalogue, ‘Secret Histories’ join my mailing list here: https://www.tomwayling.co.uk/register This is the story of Procopius’s Secret History Of Justinian – originally written around 550, but not published until 1623. In this video we look at how … Continue reading
Spanning Seven Centuries, ‘Judging a Book by its Cover’ Celebrates an Enduring Art | Colossal
FEBRUARY 14, 2024 GRACE EBERT The Whole Booke of Psalmes. London: Company of Stationers, 1643. All images courtesy of The Grolier Club, An exhibition in New York counters the monotonous, machine-printed images we’re all too familiar with with bespoke designs. … Continue reading
And Peace Shall Return – Ben Okri | Emergence Magazine
Twenty thousand years into the future, an exploration of the Earth uncovers the final notes and unfinished stories left behind by the last sentient human beings in the twilight of their history. Source: And Peace Shall Return
BBC Radio 4 – Love Stories, A Many-Splendoured Thing, Part 1
A new dramatisation of Han Suyin’s landmark novel of passion and revolution in Hong Kong. The story follows Suyin, a doctor and writer, living and working in late 1940s Hong Kong. When Suyin meets British war reporter Mark, she embarks … Continue reading
The politics of fiction | Elif Shafak
istening to stories widens the imagination; telling them lets us leap over cultural walls, embrace different experiences, feel what others feel. Elif Shafak builds on this simple idea to argue that fiction can overcome identity politics. […]