Tag Archives: music

REVIEW: The Last Light of the Sun – Guy Gavriel Kay

Posted on February 12, 2013 by Ela

This novel, set in the same world as the Sarantine Mosaic duology and The Lions of Al-Rassan, takes as its starting point the reign of Alfred the Great and his struggles against the raiding Danes. In Kay’s world, the Danes … Continue reading →

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REVIEW: Cosima Wagner: The Lady of Bayreuth – Oliver Hilmes

Posted on December 3, 2011 by Ela

(Yale University Press 2011) I picked this up at Blackwell’s music shop in Oxford (along with lots of CDs of twentieth century music) – something of a departure for me, since I don’t tend to read biography, and I’m not … Continue reading →

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REVIEW: Sherlock Holmes (film, 2009)

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Ela

Directed by: Guy Ritchie I really like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s short stories and novels about Sherlock Holmes – more famous than his creator – and wasn’t entirely sure I wanted to watch Guy Ritchie’s 2009 film version which takes … Continue reading →

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Choir books of Siena

Posted on July 22, 2011 by Ela

Last weekend we were staying near Siena for a wedding (my husband’s cousin) in the city, and while we were there we took the opportunity to visit the cathedral. It’s a beautiful building, though quite different to the plain unpainted … Continue reading →

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A Song for Arbonne – Guy Gavriel Kay

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Ela

(HarperCollins 2011, originally published 1992) Like most of Kay’s work, A Song for Arbonne is what I’d call ‘historical fantasy’ – taking history of our world and transplanting it into an invented world like ours, but different. This book takes … Continue reading →

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