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The Blue Hour, A Portrait of Jean Rhys

Lillian Pizzichini’s portrait of Jean Rhys is a melancholic, frustrating and indeed very blue depiction of the brilliant but disturbed writer…

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The Weather in the Streets

A doomed love affair, full of emotion and 1920′s bohemian scenery…

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Memo for Spring

An introduction to Liz Lochhead’s engaging and provoking poetry.

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Nada

A young woman’s account of growing up in Barcelona under the stifling control of General Franco…

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