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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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‘Moths’ – Ouida

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Ela

‘Ouida’ was the nom-de-plume of the English-born novelist Marie Louise de la Ramée, who wrote in the latter half of the 19th century. Her most famous novel is probably ‘Under Two Flags’ in which a Englishman leaves England for service … Continue reading →

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‘Swan Song’ / ‘Buried for Pleasure’ – Edmund Crispin

Posted on January 6, 2010 by Ela

Gervase Fen is an eccentric Oxford don – Professor of English Language and Literature, no less – and amateur sleuth, whose adventures in detection are invariably comic and light-hearted. Crispin (a pseudonym of Robert Bruce Montgomery) evidently prefers larkiness to … Continue reading →

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