The Broken Compass
Mathew LyonsHistory, literature, art & wonder
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Ten forgotten London films
What do you think of as the quintessential London films? For some people, myself included, it might be Ealing films such as Passport to Pimlico and The Ladykillers. But there are many films that feature London extensively – and that feature...
The writer's bookshelf: Ailsa Ross
Ailsa Ross is a novelist, journalist and critic. Her debut novel Hovel, about a woman who turns towards ancient Celtic rituals as an ill-guided means of finding solace and connection while living in a mountain town far from home, was publis...
Review: Nonesuch by Francis Spufford
It was a joy to write about this exhilarating new fantasy for Engelsberg Ideas
‘Art needs explanation sometimes’, a character says early on in Nonesuch, the latest novel from Francis Spufford. ‘But does this?’
The writer's bookshelf: Lucy Allen Goss
Eight questions about writers, books, and reading…
Lucy Allen Goss is a writer, gardener and medievalist. She has a PhD in Medieval Studies from the University of York, where she is currently a research associate. She has also held positio...
News: an exhibition in Vilnius, two literary prizes, and some summer reading
A little more miscellaneous than usual but none the worse for that…
The royal burial insignia of three of Lithuania and Poland’s most significant fifteenth and sixteenth-century monarchs – Alexander Jagiellon, Eli…
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Writer. Historian. FRHistS. Recent work: History Today, The Spectator, Daily Telegraph, Engelsberg Ideas, Slightly Foxed, Literary Review.
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