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Philip SpiresArticlesDisplaying Results 1 - 15 for philip spires Philip Spires Reviews the Black Book by Orhan PamukI have visited Turkey, but not Istanbul. It’s one of those iconic places that keeps cropping up in travel plans, but then gets overlooked, possibly because its name fits so easily into my thoughts that I convince myself I have already been ... Read A Million Would be Nice by Ken Scott, a Review by Philip SpiresI don’t read many books that claim membership of a genre. In my humble opinion, a work of fiction should aspire to create its own world, describe it, communicate it and then live in it. I want a book’s characters to inhabit the events that ... Read Philip Spires Reviews the Black Girl in Search of God and Some Lesser Tales by George Bernard ShawThe title piece in this anthology is a parable on the nature of religious belief. When first published in 1932 it caused quite a stir and I wondered whether the intervening 75 years might have rendered it something less of a shocker. I ... Read A Silk Road Trip, or I Gobbed in the Gobi, China,1992, by Philip SpiresIn August 1992, myself and my wife, Caroline, arranged a trip to post-Tiananmen China. It was in the days when the London China Travel office was on Cambridge Circus, opposite the Palace Theatre on Charing Cross Road. It took me at least ... Read Philip Spires Reviews Black Snow by Mikhail BulgakovBlack Snow is a novel by Mikhail Bulgakov. This apparent platitude is full of contradiction. The book is perhaps better described as an autobiographical episode, with Bulgakov renamed as the book’s central character, Maxudov. It’s also a ... Read Philip Spires Reviews Mukiwa by Peter GodwinPeter Godwin certainly has a story to tell. It’s a story of an idyllic, if unusual childhood, a disrupted but eventually immensely successful education, military service and then two careers, one in law, planned but aborted, and then one ... Read  La Nucia; your Guide ... a large secluded and peaceful garden, with complete use of the garden, terrace, pool and barbeque. The owners Caroline and Philip Spires live on site in the 2nd floor apartment, should you need any help or simply fancy a chat with Philip ... Read A Fool's Knot ... is set in mid-1970s Kenya and deals with different events in the lives of the same set of vivid characters in Mission, Philip Spires’s first novel. The plot is loosely based on a crime that happened on the very weekend the author started ... Read In our Grasp - How the Interent and New Technology Will Democratise Publishing ... I be able to communicate? What is so special about me that might motivate others to read about the experiences I relate? Who is this “Philip Spires”, resplendent on the cover of the book?
Well, I was born in 1952, so that makes me 55 ... Read Short Story - Protesters ... old man smiled a little, without averting his gaze, which still apparently concentrated on the beauty of the abbey’s spires, the grandeur of its tower, the power of its glory. “No,” he said, pausing again, as if wishing to perpetuate an ... Read An Orchestral Concert 14 July 2007, La Nucia, Costa Blanca, SpainThe final concert of the inaugural La Nucia arts festival took place last night. Starting at 10:30pm, it was staged in the town’s recently completed open air auditorium and featured the World Youth Orchestra directed, again masterfully, by ... Read Something of a Disappointment - Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieIt is not often that a novel comes to hand that has been prized, praised and pre-inflated. Half of a Yellow Sun was in that category when I opened it and began to read. And I was captivated immediately. I read the first hundred pages at a ... Read Sukarno, a Political Biography by J. D. Legge: Nationalism RevisitedI don’t read a lot of history, contemporary or otherwise, and when I do, it is usually in the area of political economy. In recent years, for instance, I have delighted at the scholarship and intellect of Eric Hobsbawm. But what always ... Read A Reflection on Saville by David Storey and a Bit of Rugby LeagueSaville won the Booker Prize in 1976. In such a vast novel it is inevitable that the pace will occasionally quicken and slacken, but a book like this can be read over weeks, almost dipped into as the passing phases of Colin’s life unfold. ... Read Advice to Aspiring Writers. a Speech at the Awards Ceremony for the Libros International Children’s Writing Competition. 20 July 2007Like the students who entered this competition, I started writing when I was quite young. I wrote a lot of poetry in my early teens. I wrote a novel when I was 18 and another when I was 20. Thankfully all of that was long ago put in the ... Read Searches related to: philip spires
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