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Book Review: Indigo – Egyptian Mummies to Blue Jeans by Jenny Balfour-Paul
Who would have thought that there would be so much to say about indigo, the distinctive blue dye that nowadays is mostly associated with denim? Jenny Balfour-Paul is an author, artist, lecturer and traveller whose book Indigo: Egyptian Mummies to Blue Jeans is the definitive work on the dye, tracing its exotic history from the times of the ancient Pharaohs to the present day. [Read more...]
AndalucÃa will host the final European Tour event of the year to be held on European soil for the second successive season, and once again the venue will be the prestigious Club de Golf Valderrama.
The tournament will take place from Thursday, 27th October to Sunday, 30th October 2011 when a number of world ranking players will compete for a prize fund of €3million. [Read more...]
Night Train to Lisbon
Pascal Mercier
This is a book that is one that will be hotly debated and generate interesting discussion, but it is also one that leaves little room for middle ground views. It definitely has the Marmite effect – you either love it, or you hate it! Pascal Mercier’s Night Train to Lisbon has been translated into fifteen languages, and there may lie the problem, for to quote that famous phrase ‘it was lost in translation’. [Read more...]
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