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6 days ago | thisismoney.co.uk | York Membery

Isabel Allende is a Chilean-American author whose books have sold more than 88 million copies worldwide. She grew up in Chile and is best known for her novel The House of the Spirits (1982). Allende, 82, tells York Membery of her struggles in finding work after she was forced to flee her homeland for Venezuela following the overthrow of the Chilean president, Salvador Allende (her birth father Tomas's cousin), in a 1973 military coup led by General Pinochet.

1 week ago | historyextra.com | York Membery

Moreover, it’s an opportunity to look back and remind ourselves that our children – my boy is 16 and my girl is 14 – live in peace in a democracy because of the sacrifices of the Second World War generation. My grandfather was in the army during the war, though he was one of those people who never spoke about what he did and where he went, and he died when I was quite young.

2 weeks ago | thetimes.com | York Membery

3 weeks ago | dailymail.co.uk | York Membery

The first inkling that drummer Zak Starkey had that something might be amiss, was a feeling of ‘muscle tightness’ in his right leg during a band rehearsal. ‘I’m always running around like Tigger and I didn’t feel any real pain, just some tightness in my leg – so I thought I’d just pulled a muscle,’ says Zak, 59, who played with The Who at their two sell-out shows in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust at the Royal Albert Hall last month.

1 month ago | expressdigest.com | York Membery

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