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Mitsubishi U.K. Mitsubishi is selling off its Heritage fleet in the UK this month, offering collectors the chance to pick up some true rarities without even traveling to Japan. The automaker has contracted specialist online platform Auto Auction to offer up over a dozen of its vehicles, in an online auction format concluding the end of April. This means that bidders will have plenty of time to put in their bids, and all are offered at no reserve. The vehicles themselves are all Mitsubishis that were offered in the UK or were brought in by Mitsubishi itself for company purposes, ranging from ...

Penguin’s Len Deighton covers are a twist on classic 60s book jackets A new Modern Classics collection of the British writer’s spy novels reinterprets the chevron graphics of Raymond Hawkey’s original Penguin paperback covers 06/04/2021 7:15 am Deighton, who is perhaps best known for his 1962 novel The Ipcress File – which formed the basis for the 1965 film of the same name, starring Michael Caine – was himself a book jacket designer in the 50s. After studying at the RCA in London, he created several covers for Penguin, including for the original UK edition of Jack Kerouac’s On ...

African authors – writing for the world Facebook Gail Collins outlines the growth of African literature, from the 18th century to modern times. In 1761, a small child, Phillis Wheatley (as renamed by the family she worked for) was captured and taken from her home in West Africa to Boston in the US. Fortunately, she landed in the arms of a benevolent family who taught her to read and write but they would have been totally unaware that this would lead her to become the first African to have work published in the UK and US with her collection of poetry – Poems on Various Subjects, Religious...

Print In Moxie Theatre’s new filmed production of Lauren Gunderson’s moving play “I and You,” the dying teen character Caroline is fighting so hard to stay alive, she can’t — or more accurately, she won’t — let anybody inside her heart. Then Walt Whitman enters her room. Not the famed 19th-century American poet himself, but Anthony, a fellow senior at Caroline’s high school who shows up begging for her help on a shared literature project about Whitman’s “Song of Myself.” The 1,300-line autobiographical poem, which Whitman tinkered with from 1855 to 1881, explores gran...

Rage through the ages: feminist Carmen Callil looks back in anger She was part of London’s “Australian mafia” and founded feminist publishing powerhouse Virago in 1973. Now in her 80s, and British damehood notwithstanding, this “Libertarian anarchist’s” zeal appears undimmed. By Jane Wheatley February 27, 2021 Carmen Callil has lived in London since the 1960s. “Everyone here always says, ‘Carmen, you’re so direct.’ ” Credit:Ben Murphy/Camera Press/Australscope Save Normal text size Very large text size In the English spring of 1827...