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1.9.2010
Clearing
out some drawers I found a pile of old filofax pages, which
contained diaries I'd written during my first two trips to
Venice, in 1990 and 1992. This offers up the possibility of my
adding some formative experiences to my Trip Report pages. I
haven't plucked up to read them yet, though - you know how it is with reading
old thoughts - and they might not bear repeating. A more
uncomplicated pleasure was finding old cards advertising The Mandeer.
This long-closed Indian restaurant was my lunchtime haunt of
choice on shopping trips in the 1980s. It did a bargain buffet
lunch in a labyrinthine basement behind Tottenham Court Road.
The nasty new block opposite the nasty block containing the YMCA
was built over it. Oh, the chick-pea curries of yesteryear!
18.8.2010
A bit of a roundup...I've joined
Venice in Peril
because, well, it was beginning to seem perverse of me NOT to
have joined. So I've paid me 50 quid and am now liable to attend
sundry talks and shindigs and to tell you all about them.
My next Venice trip is barely a month away. Intentions this time
include more islands, a day out to Verona or Padua, keeping up
my gelato-a-day rate and another visit to the Lido's ruined
Ospedale. Talking of which, I've just spruced up my
Ospedale al Mare page with a few new
photos and lots of very old ones.
The lean time for Venice-set fiction continues, but The
Chamber of Ten by Christopher Golden and Tim Lebbon is on
its way and looks fantastical, at the very least. Then there's
Secret Venice, a guidebook from
Jonglez
Publishing, which also promises to be something else.
Reviews of both coming soon.
21.7.2010
The eagle-eyed amongst you will have noticed that I haven't had
a new author on my new Venice Questions page for a good few
weeks. Well that's because tricky negotiations have been going
on and I can now reveal...well, regular readers of this site
will know how I hesitate to use superlatives like legendary
(except in relation to King Arthur) but some of the
authors I'll be featuring are veritable gods of Venetian
writing. And first up is John Julius Norwich.
19.7.2010
Life is full of surprises, is it not? Last week I learned that
this website had been mentioned in Marie Clare magazine.
The fact that it was in the July edition, which had been on sale
for more than a month - the August edition was out - would seem
to suggest that there are not a lot of Marie Clare
readers out there amongst you lot. So thanks to Gail in Brighton
for the heads up, and to her hairdresser's for allowing her to
tear the page out and send it to me, if they did!
more
news here
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9.2010 Thomas Jonglez and Paola Zoffoli Secret Venice
Venice
9.2010 Rachel Howard and Bill Nash Secret London
London
9.2010 Jonathan Barnes
The Somnambulist London
8.2010 C. Golden and T. Lebbon The Chamber of Ten Venice
7.2010 The Venice Questions - John Julius Norwich
7.2010
Mary Lutyens (ed.)
Effie in Venice Venice
7.2010
Mary Lutyens Meeting in Venice Venice
5.2010
The Venice
Questions -
Mary Hoffman
5.2010
Robert Westerby Wide Boys
Never Work
London
5.2010 Katie Hickman The Pindar Diamond
Venice
4.2010
The Venice
Questions -
Michelle Lovric
New thing!
3.2010 Donna Leon A Question of Belief Venice
3.2010 Michelle Lovric
The Book
of Human Skin
Venice
3.2010 Hans Fallada Alone in Berlin Berlin
3.2010 Jon Trace The Venice Conspiracy
Venice
3.2010
Philip Davis
Lost London 1870-1945
London
3.2010 Lavie Tidhar The Bookman
London
2.2010 Iris Murdoch Under
the net London
2.2010 A few days in
September Venice films
1.2010
Jason Goodwin The
Bellini Card Venice
1.2010 Andrew
Losowsky The
Doorbells of Florence
Florence
12. 2009 Muriel Spark
Territorial Rights Venice
12.2009 Kazuo
Ishiguro Nocturnes Venice
12.2009 Norman
Collins London
belongs to me London
11.2009
H. Reyes and K. Derbyshire
eds.
city-lit
Berlin Berlin
11.2009
Ashkin Ozcan The
Second Venice Venice
11.2009
Mickey Friedman
Venetian Mask
10.2009
David Hewson Lucifer's shadow Venice
10.2009
The
Abandoned Ospedale
al Mare page Venice
9.2009 P.
M. Pasinetti Venetian
Red Venice
9.2009
Peter Ackroyd Venice:
Pure City Venice
8.2009
Louis Begley Venice
for Lovers Venice
8.2009
Ariana Franklin City
of Shadows Berlin
8.2009
Vasco Pratolini A
tale of poor lovers Florence
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