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Rating: It begins like a thriller. ‘When the storm came in it was unexpected and Thomas Myers was dropped to his knees. The air darkened in the distance. There was a roar and everything went white against him. It had a kind of violence he wasn’t prepared for. He wrapped his arms around his head and lay flat on the ice to keep from being hurled away.’ We are in the Antarctic, 300 miles away from any kind of civilisation. Three men have come to work at Station K for Geographic Information ...

The writer is an author. IN addition to the 25 or so regnal titles affixed already to the name of Queen Elizabeth II, another doleful one can now be attached: ‘The Widow of Windsor’. This was last applied to Queen Victoria (the Queen’s great-great-grandmother), after the death of her husband Prince Albert in December 1861. Like Prince Philip, Albert passed away at Windsor Castle. Unlike Philip, though, Albert as husband of a Queen regnant craved the title of Prince Consort. Prince Albert ...

New analysis shows the USA, Israel and Malta are top contenders for the holiday ‘green list’ 19 April 2021 • 1:57pm Malta is likely to be on the ‘green list’ for safe travel this summer Credit: Getty The USA, Malta, Israel, Iceland, Gibraltar and Ireland are likely to be on the ‘green list’ for safe travel this summer, according to new modelling. The analysis, carried out by Robert Boyle – former strategy chief of British Airways and its owner IAG – confirms that, according t...

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. From the Inside Flap: A VICTORIAN CELEBRATION PARLOR CATS As with the Queen, so with the Empire: when Victoria revealed a love for cats, her people elevated their tabby mousers to a position unrivaled since ancient Egypt. Celebrating that great era of ailurophilia are Cynthia Hart and John Grossman, the arbiters of Victoriana whose books include A Victorian Scrapbook, Joy to the World, and Forget-Me-Nots, as well as the best-selling Vict...

Reviews: Icarus Peels Acid Reign, The Sweet, Kraut Rock, Fleur de Lys, 70s Classic Rock, Global Village Trucking Company, Duke Reid by Dave Thompson Shallow Oceans (CD/LP) (Billywitch Records) Mr Peel, of Honeypot and Crystal Jacqueline fame, has been absent from these pages for a while now - indeed, it’s more than two years since his Acid Reign alter-ego last strutted its raucous stuff. But Shallow Oceans makes up for lost time with one of the finest guitar rock albums of recent memory… a...

An Elizabethan adventure Even when museums open, the National Portrait Gallery, which I always like to do a quick sweep through if nearby, will be closed for renovations. If you’re on Pall Mall and missing Elizabethan and Jacobean portraits there’s always ‘Love’s Labour’s Found’ at Philip Mould (21 April–28 May), a chance to see 17 portraits that have been unearthed in recent years and are now mainly in private collections. I can’t wait to see ‘The Unintended Beauty of Disast...

Edward Lear, Victorian author of nonsense verse, was also a water-colourist and a traveller. Lears sense of humour was contrasted with his severe bouts of depression. Gregarious and popular, he had a wide circle of friends including Alfred Tennyson, yet was often lonely. As well as descriptions of some of Lears sketches and watercolours (of which he painted some 10,000 in the course of his career), Levi also provides critical analysis of classic poems, such as "The Jumblies", "The Owl and the P...

Article content In these unconventional times, many area families have stayed away from conventional schooling. The Avon Maitland District School Board reports that there are more than 1,100 students in their remote learning school this year, 696 in elementary with an additional 443 secondary students. But there are also 268 students a part of their PROG Homeroom program, where paper packages with the curriculum are picked up regularly by parents at their “home” school. We apologize, but th...

Image by MorningbirdPhoto from Pixabay April is the gateway to spring and also, appropriately, National Poetry Month. Poetry is a high art and an enormously important part of the Western intellectual tradition, but I must confess that, although I have a few favorite poets, I never became a dedicated reader. We were made to study poems at school, and to memorize and recite popular examples from an ancient book called Palgrave’s Golden Treasury. This was a painful experience for young boys, ...

Extract from Sauntering: Writers Walk Europe, introduced and edited by Duncan Minshull | reviews, news & interviews Extract from Sauntering: Writers Walk Europe, introduced and edited by Duncan Minshull Extract from Sauntering: Writers Walk Europe, introduced and edited by Duncan Minshull An ode to leisurely aimlessness by TheartsdeskMonday, 15 March 2021 Wandering, ambling, sauntering. The last, least heard of the three, captures a sense of leisurely aimlessness: a jolly meander...