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Philip Larkin once refused to pay an inflated price for a first edition of one of his own...

It’s a place whose real boundaries and character are much more than its physical dimensions.

Death has always haunted the splendid, squalid capital of the south, making it unlike any other Italian city, says Marius Kociejowski

Ian Robertson, Hispanophile and author of engaging and scholarly Blue Guides to European countries – obituary There was hardly a church or cloister in Spain which Robertson did not write about, helped by his wife Marie Thérèse, his manager and driver Robertson: a special interest in the British travel writers who ventured to Spain, notably Richard Ford Ian Robertson, the travel writer, who has died in Arles aged 92, regarded swathes of continental Europe as his “Empire”; well he might, ...