Perhaps the most important Latin American poet of the 20th Century, Neruda was a Chilean poet as well as a diplomat and politician who was awarded the Nobel prize for Literature in 1971. A quirky but nevertheless important fact was that throughout his life he used green ink as a demonstration of his undying hope […]

Published in 1940 The Power and the Glory, its American version, The Labyrinthine Ways, is regarded by most as Graham Greene’s finest novel. At the time of the book’s publication London was being bombed and the Heineman offices took a hit destroying a considerable amount of the first impression copies of the Power and the Glory. […]

An interest in Spain as a country came from picking up a copy of Laurie Lee’s, ‘ As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning’. At first, It was not the content but the dust jacket which caught my attention. In the foreground a man in a tweed suit and a hat carrying a walking stick […]