It was still dark when all the bells of Rome began to toll. Their chorus calling on the populace to wake, to pray, to work. Maddalena Viscuso looked back and saw a dawning strip which pushed against t

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My Berlin probably peaked on 9th November 2014. In a spacious borrowed flat in Mitte, not far from trendy Arkonaplatz, I had countersigned a passport application for a baby just born to friends: Briti

NOT JUST THE MOST ORIGINAL VOICE IN FRENCH POP, Brigitte Fontaine IS ONE OF THE MOST INVENTIVE CREATORS IN ALL POST-WAR MUSIC. JUST ASK SONIC YOUTH, STEREOLAB AND GRACE JONES. A LUXE REISSUE OF HER KEY ALBUM, BRIGITTE FONTAINE EST... FOLLE RENEWS HER CLAIM AND BEGS THE QUESTION: WHY WON'T FRANCE EMBRACE HER? "THEY'LL ALWAYS THINK I'M CRAZY,"

The imagined gardens within the pages of our favourite books can seem as real as the flower beds outside our door. Here, author Sandra Lawrence explores three evocative literary landscapes