Slaughter in the streets
Paris has been living in the shadow of fear for six months. Five women out on foot, on their way…
21 November 2017 - 11.11 AM
A matter of meaning
An alarm bell went off in our mind when we reached page 79 of Belgian author Georges Simenon’s book…
15 November 2017 - 02.11 PM
Even Maigret can’t win them all
Simenon, writing this book in the mid-1950s, quickly and expertly sets his scene and atmosphere. It…
15 November 2017 - 02.11 PM
Death by ideology, courtesy ‘Uncle Joe’
It is a statistic to boggle the mind: in 1932-33, an estimated nearly 4 million people died of…
30 October 2017 - 01.10 PM
“Those charming deviationists . . . ”
In the early 1960s an explosion of youthful musical talent shook Britain, with budding guitarists,…
24 October 2017 - 01.10 PM