Charlie Connelly

19 December 2020

The spooky German tale that inspired a Christmas tradition

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19 December 2020

The man who turned down Bowie and Bono

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17 December 2020

John le Carré – The author who called out government’s ‘patriotism’ as nationalism

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13 December 2020

The Soviet hero who turned dissident

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11 December 2020

Bad year but good books: My recommendations of 2020

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06 December 2020

Sixteen of the best books to give as gifts this Christmas

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06 December 2020

The woman behind one of the 20th century’s most chilling phrases

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29 November 2020

The high flier who became a national hero for France

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23 November 2020

The writer who captured the essence of Europe

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20 November 2020

The Booker Prize’s most bizarre bunfight yet

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12 November 2020

How to help the bookshops left teetering by lockdown

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12 November 2020

The actress who never took the easy option

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05 November 2020

How Europe influenced Robert Louis Stevenson’s lesser-known work

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05 November 2020

Great European Lives: René Goscinny

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05 November 2020

Wilfred Owen – the voice of the fallen

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05 November 2020

Jacques Anquetil: The clinical cyclist who never charmed the crowds

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30 October 2020

Great European Lives: Henry Dunant

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30 October 2020

Book signings – a long gone sign of our times

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22 October 2020

Ève Curie – the musician who became an exile

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22 October 2020

History at haste.. and heading where in a handcart?

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15 October 2020

The book delving into the hidden depths of Venice

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15 October 2020

GREAT EUROPEAN LIVES: The life of French sculptor Camille Claudel

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02 October 2020

The first great novel of the staycation era

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01 October 2020

John Keats, Durdle Door and a fittingly romantic departure

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01 October 2020

The tragic truths behind the myths of Edith Piaf

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24 September 2020

The singer with ‘no voice, no looks and no luck’

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23 September 2020

Great European Lives: Anna Magnani

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23 September 2020

How coronavirus curbed the pilgrimage

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