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Before Cephalonia there was a clearing in the Normandy woods, with a spring and a clear, cold stream | Louis de Bernières

Jan 3, 2025 | theguardian.com | Louis De Bernieres

During my 20s, I was too poor to go abroad on holidays, as my friends did. They would go somewhere blazingly hot, and roast themselves stupid on beaches filthy with cigarette ends and beer cans. I was a landscape gardener, and my summers were spent in the Surrey Hills, building walls and terraces from stone. By the time I reached my 30s, however, I had a girlfriend – and, because I had become a teacher, a few weeks’ holiday in the summer. Annie was from Northern Ireland, and she taught French.
The Best Adventure Novels: The 2024 Wilbur Smith Prize

Oct 9, 2024 | fivebooks.com | Louis De Bernieres |Chukwuebuka Ibeh |C. E. McGill |Derek Miller

recommended by Emma Styles Winner of the 2024 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize Saltblood by Francesca de Tores If you love adventure stories, you'll be delighted to hear that there's a book prize fully focused on them.
David Clensy's 3 favorite reads in 2023

Apr 15, 2024 | shepherd.com | Sebastian Barry |Louis De Bernieres |John Banville |David Clensy

Shepherd is reader supported. When you buy books, we may earn an affiliate commission. Myfavorite read in 2023…The book deals movingly with the issues around historic child sex abuse in the Catholic church in Ireland. Barry said his period as Laureate for Irish Fiction (2019–2021) stopped him from “thinking about himself” as a writer and gave him a sense of “a public role,” which ultimately opened the door to him taking on this enormously challenging subject matter.
Louis de Bernière's Boarding-School Diaries

Apr 12, 2024 | airmail.news | Louis De Bernieres

A few years ago I started to write a book about my prep school. I was going to call it Requiem For A Hellhole. It began with the words: ‘In September of 1963 an eight-year-old boy was delivered into hell. That little boy was me.’I got about 2,000 words into it and couldn’t carry on.
After Diana's brother laid bare his childhood suffering in a memoir, a celebrated author says: Nobody gives a damn what happened to posh boys like me and Earl Spencer who were so cruelly abused at school | Daily Mail Online

Apr 3, 2024 | dailymail.co.uk | Louis De Bernieres

A few years ago I started to write a book about my prep school. I was going to call it Requiem For A Hellhole. It began with the words: ‘In September of 1963 an eight-year-old boy was delivered into hell. That little boy was me.’I got about 2,000 words into it and couldn’t carry on.
BOOK REVIEW | Light Over Liskeard

Dec 18, 2023 | bbrief.co.za | Louis De Bernieres

By Louis de BernièresA novel about what really matters in life from the bestselling author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin. Q wants a simpler and safer life. His work as a quantum cryptographer for the government has led him to believe a crisis is imminent for civilisation and he’s looking for somewhere to ride out what’s ahead. He buys a ruined farmhouse in Cornwall and begins to build his own self-sufficient haven.
Jilly Cooper Has A Racy New Novel Out And We Cannot Wait

Nov 14, 2023 | thegoodwebguide.co.uk | Philippa Gregory |Louis De Bernieres |Omid Scobie |Becky Ladenburg

ONEJilly Cooper’s first novel for seven years is out this month – and it’s likely to be her last. Even the notoriously snobbish Literary Review has good things to say – and that, amongst the many other reasons we’ve exhaustively listed to convert Cooper newbies and naysayers, is why you really mustn’t miss Tackle!The plot sees our silver fox of a hero, Rupert Campbell-Black, taking a break from training racehorses to buy a football club.
He's rubbed shoulders with the stars. But, says author LOUIS de BERNIERES on the day of the Queen's funeral, nothing came close to his joyous meetings with...The tiny woman with dazzling blue eyes who turned me from a republican to a royalist | Daily Mail

Sep 2, 2023 | dailymail.co.uk | Louis De Bernieres

Somewhere in my possession I have a snotty letter I wrote to my mother from university about not being interested in the Queen's 1977 anniversary. I was a young philosophy student at the time and being enthusiastic about the Monarchy was definitely not cool, especially as there was some kudos to be accrued from pretending to be Leftist. I found myself puzzled and irritated by all the street parties and general celebrations, as if it was nothing to do with me.
INK Festival 13-16th April 2023

Feb 21, 2023 | inkfestival.org | Louis De Bernieres

The INK Festival 2023 will take place13-16th April (+ April 17th which is an exclusive free day for students) in Halesworth, Suffolk. We have expanded into the town to create many original performance spaces where we will be performing more than 50 short new plays, selected this year from hundreds of submissions from new as well as experienced writers.