I loved Bebbanburg and I almost loved Defnascir as much. When the world was made by Thor from […]
Image: Hound Tor, Dartmoor: inspiration for the Hound of the Baskervilles – and owner unknown. This post is […]
The Travel Writing Tribe: Journeys in Search of a Genre by Tim Hannigan My rating: 5 of 5 […]
Special Interest Tourism and the Authenticity Dilemma. Access to download the PowerPoint slides from the YouTube video as […]
My first major investigation of contemporary travel writing practices focussed on Paris. I examined the work and the […]
Glance at the front cover of the US edition of Modiano’s novel, Dora Bruder. Can you see the […]
So this is city, is it? Dug earth, its water fired to air. Rust rocks smoothed to steel, […]
Emmanuelle Petit provides a more contemporary view of the city of Nantes than Gracq and Rossi in her […]
Immobilised indoors with a broken leg in the summer of 2016 gave me time to indulge in Literary […]
I finally have Gravatar working again and linked to my WordPress org blog site at eserve.org.uk Gravatar puts […]
There is a horse chestnut tree in my town; it stands silently alongside the only pavement into the […]
English-language readers will be pleased to hear that in 2016 another of Patrick Modiano’s novels has been translated […]
On 7th May 1981 André Berten, a lecturer at the University of Louvain, engaged a visiting professor, Michel […]
Awakening – Cann Woods Incline A low rumbling sound rolled through the trees from her right. The writer […]
In February 2021, Clarisse and I were students again. We studied with les Ateliers de l’Escargot on a […]
I promised back in my last post on Wallonia to tell you more about the Maigret novel that […]
The International Conference on Literature, Tourism, and Cities is an event that aims to promote reflection on the […]
When I visited Lille in the 1990s I always hurried to the metro station to travel out to […]