This Is Not The End of the Book, by Umberto Eco, Jean-Claude Carriere, Jean-Philippe de Tonnac and Polly McLean

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The Last Hundred Days, by Patrick McGuinness

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As for several years previously now, here are twenty songs of 2010 which - whilst in many cases not the best - are indubitably the ones that got their hooks into me this year. Enjoy. The first ten are available in ZIP format here.

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The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, by David Mitchell

A bit special. More here.

Trespass, by Rose Tremain

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Over on YouSendIt is the second half of that list of my twenty songs of 2008. For those of you who enjoyed, derided or simply ignored the last batch, get this lot before apathy gets you.

My often off-base reasonings are, predictably enough, below the cut.

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It has come to my attention that my EP, On Someone, is now available to buy via iTunesThis is of course quite cool - though I'll make far less money per sale than I do from selling the CD direct, it gives me the opportunity to get the music out there more widely than before. To this end, you can help me out, if you fancy it. First, of course, if ( Read more... )

In a conversation with James Shapiro printed in the programme of his RSC production of King Lear, Sir Trevor Nunn (for it is he), says, "This is absolutely central to me, because I find no sense of divine justice [in the text]." For anyone who saw the production, just finished at the Courtyard theatre in Stratford and about to set off on a world ( Read more... )