by NRB | 10 Oct 2017 | Fiction |
This classic novel by the recent Nobel-winner gives us the life of an English ‘gentleman’s gentleman’ and invites us to analyse the relationship between master and servant. This year the Japanese-born English writer Kazuo Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize for Literature;...
by NRB | 7 Mar 2014 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
In a book I was reading recently I came across a mention of Bertrand Russell as convenor of a conference of intellectuals and others protesting against the war in Vietnam. Russell was then 94. I hadn’t thought about him for years, but was abruptly reminded of what a...