Tag: Samuel Pepys
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A London Year
Paperback now available – £12.99 365 Days of City Life in Diaries, Journals and Letters – compiled by Travis Elborough & Nick Rennison “With Thelma to the George Inn, Southwark, for a lunch of steak-and-kidney pie, cherry pie and beer. Expected hordes of American tourists but found only English, including three young men with posh…
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Winter: Adam Gopnik
“Winter is coming,” as the Starks say in A Game of Thrones. It may not be uppermost in our minds during this balmy August, but New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik’s wonderful, wide-ranging meditation on winter will prepare you for the diminishing December days by stirring an appreciation of our 19th century taming of the season,…