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The Invention of Amsterdam by Ben Coates

2 weeks ago | the-tls.co.uk | Pablo Scheffer |Norma Clarke |Martin Beagles |Mark Nayler

Winner of the 2024 Niche Market Newspaper of the Year Award and proudly niche since 1902. Venice with bicyclesA sympathetic introduction to AmsterdamTo Albert Camus, Amsterdam’s concentric waterways resembled the circles of hell. His protagonist in The Fall (1956), a “judge- penitent” who whiles away his days in a seedy sailors’ bar on the Zeedijk, unkindly describes the city’s “little space of houses and canals, hemmed in by fogs” as an enfer bourgeois.
A Spanish writer’s reflections on living the English way

2 weeks ago | the-tls.co.uk | Martin Beagles |Norma Clarke |Pablo Scheffer |Mark Nayler

Winner of the 2024 Niche Market Newspaper of the Year Award and proudly niche since 1902. ¡Camelón, plis, camelón!A Spanish writer’s reflections on living the English wayShortly after arriving in a cold London in December 1910, the prolific Spanish journalist and travel writer Julio Camba (1884–1962) tried to go for a walk. To his surprise, Camba, a foreign correspondent for various Spanish newspapers, was prevented from achieving this modest aim by a succession of anxious policemen.
The North Pole by Erling Kagge

1 month ago | the-tls.co.uk | Mark Nayler |Norma Clarke |Guy Stagg |Nat Segnit

The North Pole is the point at the top of our planet where the Earth’s axis of rotation meets the surface. It is not a place. Unlike the South Pole, it is located at the centre of a frozen ocean, the ice of which is constantly moving. It has no longitude because all lines converge there. It has no time zone, so you can choose the local hour. The North Pole, writes the Norwegian explorer Erling Kagge, “is like an abstract painting, freed from all form”.
The Treasury of Folklore by Dee Dee Chainey & Willow Winsham

Jan 22, 2025 | the-tls.co.uk | Norma Clarke

Welcome to the TLSWinner of the 2024 Niche Market Newspaper of the Year Award and proudly niche since 1902.
My Family by David Baddiel

Dec 11, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Norma Clarke

Welcome to the TLSWinner of the 2024 Niche Market Newspaper of the Year Award and proudly niche since 1902.
Cello by Kate Kennedy

Nov 13, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Norma Clarke

Anita Lasker-Wallfisch holding a photograph of herself playing the cello before the Second World War
Mary Robinson (Chawton House, Hampshire)

Nov 6, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Norma Clarke

Welcome to the TLSWinner of the 2024 Niche Market Newspaper of the Year Award and proudly niche since 1902.
Fernanda Eberstadt’s youthful desire to test her limits

Sep 25, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Miranda France |Richard Smyth |Noreen Masud |Norma Clarke

Diogenes the Cynic (c.412-323 BC) provides not only the title but the guiding spirit for this book about people who use their bodies as sites of resistance or protest. The Greek philosopher also known as “Diogenes the Dog” slept, masturbated and defecated in the public square as a way to protest against political corruption. “Other dogs bite their enemies”, he said.
Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses

Jan 31, 2024 | literaryreview.co.uk | Norma Clarke |Paula Byrne

The title of Paula Byrne’s Hardy Women is a pun on Thomas Hardy’s name and a gesture to the enthusiasm that greeted Hardy’s fictional women. Bathsheba Everdene in Far from the Madding Crowd, Tess Durbeyfield in Tess of the d’Urbervilles and Sue Bridehead in Jude the Obscure were new kinds of women, and Hardy’s fame, which was immense and began with the publication of , rested to a large extent on the heroines he created.