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The Saxon Network: 1 by Mr Norman Hartley
The Saxon Network: 1 by Mr Norman Hartley
I used to work with Norman Hartley in the old World Service Newsroom at Bush House, which features prominently in this accomplished thriller. There was a 'spook'-y side to Bush, though not quite on the scale that Hartley depicts here. Early in its existence - before the BBC moved in in 1941 - both Soviet and British intelligence had toeholds in the building.

Norman Hartley was an excellent news writer - and I seem to remembebr that earlier in his career he was at one time 'Alternative Lifestyle Correspondent' for the Toronto Global and Mail. He's an even better thriller writer. Give it a go!
Spitalfields Life: In the Midst of Life I Woke to &hellip by The Gentle Author
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Spitalfields Life is a wonderful website - not just about Spitalfields, but that area and around. And very much about life - people, personalities, stories, anecdotes. It's wonderfully illustrated, and entirely life affirming.

The book is absolutely in the same mould - short articles about people (and places), in Spitalfields and arounds, and the remarkable lives they lead. It's respectful of the past without being antiquarian - and very well illustrated with some really nice drawings.

A really nice example of new media hacking it in an old format.
There's No Home by Alexander Baron
There's No Home by Alexander Baron
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars 'A lull in the war', 13 Jun 2011
A hugely compassionate account - based in part on the author's own WW2 experience - of the relationships which develop between British soldiers who have just pushed the Germans out of Siciliy and the women of the town of Catania. The story is told as much from the women's point of view as of the officers and men. It is, as Baron says, a story not of conflict, but of the brief flowering of the human spirit in lulls in the fighting.

Baron is finding a new readership both for his war novels (above all 'From the City From the Plough') and his novels of post-war London ('The Lowlife', 'Rosie Hogarth'). This is among his best writing - among the best accounts of humanity amid war. And… Read more
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