Hints and tips:
...It’s compulsive, funny, far from boring — I had to tear myself away after six and a half hours....
...This island off the Tuscan coast — part of the Tuscan Archipelago, which includes Elba — is very popular with Romans who want to escape the city for a couple of days....
...When you’re at school in France, everyone learns about ancient Greek, Roman and Egyptian civilisations, and you often start to be obsessed with one....
...But not just any dinner, an outdoor one along the Viale dei Cipressi: the avenue of ancient cypresses leading up from the Roman Via Aurelia coast road to the hilltop village that gives the appellation its...
...He admires Christian Bale (“There’s something quite extreme innately in him”) and vies with Tom Hiddleston and Idris Elba in the bookies’ guesswork as to the next James Bond....
...A spectacular mash-up of knights, Roman legionaries and magical animals....
...I felt more alive, more fully myself, when I finished it. When I read this week of Salter’s death, I wished I had met him, for all that he was....
...“If I am a political propagandist, I am proud of it,” Berger says, “but my heart and eye have remained those of a painter.” The combination is always illuminating....
...Last year, I nearly ran over a large sea turtle off Elba....
...Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain, by Charlotte Higgins, Jonathan Cape, RRP£20 Higgins drives a blue camper van around Britain seeking out the ruins of Roman civilisation....
...Roman Abramovich visited a few years ago and was so impressed that he established an annual Chelsea Soccer School there....
...Matthew Kneale’s latest book is ‘When We Were Romans’ (Picador)...
...The phrasebook teaches users to say, “Indeed, I assure you that Homer’s family name was Simpson.”...
...pretending to be Vikings, Romans or American civil war soldiers....
...And if ever a landscape corresponded to that description, it is surely Chukotka, the Siberian province where local magnate Roman Abramovich made his fortune in oil....
...This book by the young boxer is the only one I opened....
...They know that I will win. But do I know it? Can I be sure? Have I over-reached myself? Am I too old?...
...The Puritan Gift: Triumph, Collapse and Revival of an American Dream By Kenneth and Will Hopper I.B....
...I am queuing outside a portable toilet behind a Viking and a Roman legionary. The air is thick with the fatty smell of spit-roasts from a nearby Norman encampment....
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