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DAMIEN LEWIS The Flame of Resistance: The untold story of Josephine Baker’s secret war. Reviewed by Suzanne Marks

DAMIEN LEWIS The Flame of Resistance: The untold story of Josephine Baker’s secret war. Reviewed by Suzanne Marks

by NRB | 18 May 2023 | Non-fiction | 0 comments

Josephine Baker, the most glamorous and highly paid female entertainer of her time, was also an Allied spy in World War II. In The Flame of Resistance Damien Lewis has drawn on a profusion of new historical material, including previously undisclosed letters and...
The Godfather: Peter Corris on how technology changes the plot

The Godfather: Peter Corris on how technology changes the plot

by NRB | 10 Mar 2017 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 1 comment

In the television program Life on Mars a character from the present has gone back to the past and at a moment of plot crisis shouts in frustration, ‘I need my mobile!’ ‘Your mobile what?’ someone responds. This illustrates the effect time and technology can have on...
The Godfather: Peter Corris on film quotes

The Godfather: Peter Corris on film quotes

by NRB | 16 Oct 2015 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 1 comment

Call me superficial, but several quotes from films stay with me permanently and surface in my consciousness from time to time. One in particular I repeat at what I deem to be an appropriate moment. Whenever I consider that I’ve done something generous towards a family...
The Godfather: Peter Corris on revisiting old favourites

The Godfather: Peter Corris on revisiting old favourites

by NRB | 3 Oct 2014 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 1 comment

People re-read books. Jean claims that for many years she re-read Wuthering Heights every couple of years and I have no reason to doubt her. I cannot say how many times I’ve re-read Somerset Maugham’s short stories or Hemingway’s story ‘Fifty Grand’ or the first...
             

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