1637 was date of the collapse of the world’s first speculative bubble, all created by a passion for tulips. In Holland people mortgaged their houses to buy and sell tulip bulbs for ever-increasing […]
Quite by accident, the three novels I chose to take with me to Holland were all set back in the 1600s, the country’s Golden Age. The Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy […]
Whenever I travel somewhere I search out novels that are set in that particular country. My choice for Spain was Don Quixote, primarily because my friend Eddy had been reading the book […]
Among my selection of books to read while I was in Myanmar were two famous novels that both featured the crush of boats at U Bein bridge in Mandalay on […]
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