by NRB | 11 Aug 2020 | Non-fiction |
James Gardner’s history of the Louvre includes emperors and architects, social and political upheaval, war and revolution – and great works of art. Before the Louvre was a museum, it was a palace, and before that a fortress, and before that a plot of earth, much...
by NRB | 20 Oct 2017 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
This may seem to be an unusual heading given my stated political leanings and the observable political facts, but bear with me. It’s based on a single premise, which will become clear. Turnbull, although he claims to have been raised in somewhat straitened...