Biography – Love in the Afternoon
That’s my 3-step approach to planning, structuring and writing a chapter. Or a book. Or an essay for that matter. I write narrative nonfiction: biography and cultural history. I’m often trying to capture a time in history, or a particular person’s contribution to history, so I need ...
Psyche was the ancient Greek goddess of the soul and the wife of Eros (Roman Cupid) god of love. She was once a mortal princess whose extraordinary beauty earned the ire of Aphrodite (Roman Venus) when men began turning their worship away from the goddes
During this period, Louis fell in love with Mazarin's niece Marie Mancini, but Anne and Mazarin ended the king's infatuation by sending Mancini away from court to be married in Italy. While Mazarin might have been tempted for a short time to marry his niece to the King of France, Queen...
Biography Elsa Panciroliis a palaeontologist who studies the evolution and ecology of extinct animals – particularly mammals from the time of dinosaurs. She is a researcher based at the University of Oxford and an associate researcher at the National Museum of Scotland. Elsa has published multiple...
AM: I love the Gherkin. JM: You do? AM: I think it’s fantastic. JM: But you don’t like any of the old architecture in London? AM: Well, yeah, but it’s not as nice as it is in Italy or Paris. JM: If you hadn’t trained on Savile Row, how would you have entered the...
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While at Stein, 18-(or 21-)year-old Erasmus fell in unrequited love, forming what he called a "passionate attachment" (Latin: fervidos amores), with a fellow canon, Servatius Rogerus,[note 11] and wrote a series of love letters[note 12][39] in which he called Rogerus "half my sou...
I’ll finish with a final bit of love for the book and Bragg: The last paragraph, which I wouldn’t dare share here (even though I’m tempted cause I love it so much) is gorgeous homage to such ‘blips’ in history. First theyare—audacious and undeniable. Then they are weathered—...
The Look of Love: Directed by Michael Winterbottom. With Jennifer Ellis, Steve Coogan, Nick Hopper, Paul Popplewell. The life of Paul Raymond, the controversial entrepreneur who became Britain's richest man.