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Tag: Bruce Chatwin

In The Green Shade

Posted on November 18, 2019 by Daniel Bennett in Fiction

‘Lewis and Benjamin gambolled ahead, put up grouse, played finger-football with rabbit droppings, peered over the precipice onto the backs of kestrels and ravens and, every now and then, crept off into the bracken, and hid. They liked to pretend they were lost in a forest, like the Twins in Grimms’ fairy-tale, and that each … Continue reading In The Green Shade →

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Spa-town

Posted on September 13, 2019September 13, 2019 by Daniel Bennett in Fiction, Novel

'Utz had an idea, derived from Russian novels or his parents' love affair at Marienbad, that a spa-town was a place where the unexpected invariably happened.' Utz, Bruce Chatwin

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