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  1. The whole documentary is available to watch online from the Leman Productions archive: Alastair Reid reflects on 30 years of writing for the NEW YORKER magazine, & his remarkable literary friendships with Robert Graves, Jorge Luis Borges & Pablo Neruda

    3/5

    youtube.com/watch?v=K2-NTj70oB

    #Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #sunshine #calvinism #AlastairReid #20thcentury #RobertGraves #JorgeLuisBorges #Borges #PabloNeruda

  2. Robert Graves had a unique and idiosyncratic approach to historical fiction. Best-known for I, CLAUDIUS but COUNT BELISARIUS, set against the background of Justinian's attempt to reconquer the Roman Empire in the West, is very much worth reading.

    #HistoricalFiction #RobertGraves #RomanHistory #belisarius #justinian #Historicalnovel #Historicalnovels

  3. A random choice of #7Books on a particularly lazy #Saturday afternoon

    To Kill a Mockingbird #HarperLee

    The Tommyknockers #StephenKing

    Dune #FrankHerbert

    The Last Enchantment #MaryStewart

    The Remains of the Day #KazuoIshiguro

    La Solitudine dei Numeri Primi #PaoloGiordano

    King Jesus #RobertGraves