Nicholas Shakespeare
Summer Reading
The Orange-bellied Parrot
Nicholas Shakespeare
Alison had never liked her grandmother, who lived alone in a big overheated apartment in Zurich, and so when Helen went into hospital after...
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Travel Special
The Quiet Peninsula: Nicholas Shakespeare on Tasmania
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Joan Masterman’s matchless four-day walk, the Freycinet Experience, turns 20 this year. For her traditional end-of-season party, she has...
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Inheritance: Nicholas Shakespeare in conversation
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Part 1 | Part 2 Award-winning fiction and non-fiction author Nicholas Shakespeare has been described by The Times as one of the UK’s 'best...
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Before Little England: James Boyce’s ‘Van Diemen’s Land’
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"I am so weak that I could eat a piece of man."One of Tasmania's least-known convict sites is to be found in roughly the spot...
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In early July my beautiful 17-year-old niece arrived from Winnipeg, Canada, on her first visit to London. I’d assured Sarah’s parents I...
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W. made his slow way up the steps into Am Sandwerder and accustomed his eyes to the light, uncertain whether the streaks in the sky...
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"Oh My God. He's Done it Again": Dobbing on Dr Raad
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It was a late April morning in 2001 and my wife had taken our seven-month-old son to the Swansea surgery for a routine jab – the final set...
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