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• Blog Tour - the Stylist by Rosie Nixon

  

  My reviewRosie Nixon's debut novel is out!Enjoyable, glittering, glamorous.Can being in the wrong place at the wrong time make your life unexpectedly wonderful? Read more

  Posted on 18 February 2016 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• Bad Grammar = Forever Alone? Tips for Love at First Type

  

  Happy Valentine's Day, everyone! Is grammar important in our love life? Can bad grammar affects our love relationships? Apparently the answer is: Yes, it is! I... Read more

  Posted on 14 February 2016 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• Jane and the Waterloo Map Blog Tour - Talking Jane Austen with ... Stephanie...

  

  Stephanie BarronAward winning author Stephanie Barron has been touring the blogosphere since February 2nd and will go on till February 22nd, 2016 to share her... Read more

  Posted on 12 February 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• My Kids Grow up and ... They Are Pretty Special - Tommaso Troia: Find a Job You...

  

  Here's a new story in the series "My kids grow up" dedicated to my former students. Tommaso has always been very active, lively, smart. Read more

  Posted on 09 February 2016 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• Suffragettes - a Movie, an Anniversary & a Quote

  

  The Anniversary: 6 February, 1918Let's start with the anniversary, then. The campaign to gain women the vote in Britain had run for decades by 1918. Thinkers... Read more

  Posted on 07 February 2016 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• At the Cinema - All Hail, Macbeth !

  

  "... a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” At the cinema with my studentsIt came out on the 5th this month and, at last, I came... Read more

  Posted on 30 January 2016 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• Period & More Period - the Ultimate Map of Downton Abbey Locations

  

  It wasn't easy for UK fans to bid farewell to their beloved Edwardian friends from Downton Abbey. US viewers still have a few episodes to go(check PBS... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2016 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• Tobias by Prue Batten - Book Review

  

  Book BlurbByzantium stretches a weakening grip across Eastern Europe, trying in vain to hold onto all that has made it an empire. Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2016 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• UNLEASHING MR DARCY - FROM BOOK TO MOVIE, TERI WILSON'S LOVELY MODERN SPIN ON...

  

  The TV movieWe all need a bit of fairy dust on our grey lives from time to time and watching this lovely TV movie helped my mood like a touch of magic wand... Read more

  Posted on 26 January 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Period & More Period - War, Peace and a Restless Prince

  

  Are you watching War and Peace? I am and I like it so much! I knew I had to wait on a bit to understand if I could love or hate this adaptation of Tolstoj's... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2016 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• John Montana, Hope in an Actor's Life

  

  The job of acting is one of the most alluring for us ordinary mortals. We imagine that being an actor and living in LA must be so cool and glamorous. Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2016 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• Then Comes Winter Book Goes on Tour

  

  This past November, Then ComesWinter, a collection of winter themed short stories, embarked on a trip to visit the hometowns of the talented authors who... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2016 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• London's Jewish Book Week, February 20-28, 2016: Amazing Authors & Wonderful...

  

  Tracy Chevalier, Esther Freud, Anne SebbaDo you live in London or its surroundings? Do you plan a trip there in February? If you love literary events, you... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2016 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• The Lords of the North by Bernard Cornwell - Book Review

  

  The Lords of The North by Bernard CornwellThe third installment of Bernard Cornwell’s bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England,... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2016 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• Period & More Period - "mr Holmes" and "suffragette"

  

  Are you in for a couple of good recommendations? Movies this time. The latest I've seen and liked, both released in theatres in the last months of 2015: Mr... Read more

  Posted on 11 January 2016 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• My Kids Grow up and They're Pretty Special - Kika, Edo & the Singing of the Trees

  

  In November you met Maria Sofia, studying Arabic and giving a helping hand in Palestine. In December, Emanuele, living in Milan and working as a software... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2016 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• Period & More Period - My Best Favourite Costume Drama Series of 2015

  Powered by Cincopa <a href="http://www.cincopa.com/video-hosting">Video Hosting for Business</a> solution. 2015 has been a blessed year for period... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2015 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• Sway Blog Tour - a Contemporary Retelling of Persuasion by Melanie Stanford

  

  Sway is out today and Melanie Stanford is our guest to launch her blog tour. Sway is new modern retelling of Jane Austen's Persuasion. Ready to welcome Melanie... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2015 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Period & More Period - a Very Period Christmas Time

  

  I'm so happy this holiday season will be pretty special. It'll be a very period Christmas time, you know? Period as in period drama, great costume series,... Read more

  Posted on 19 December 2015 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES

• To Send Or Not to Send ... Them a Christmas Card?

  

  In the era of everything digital, do we still choose, buy and send personalized Christmas cards to family and friends living far from us? Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2015 ART & DESIGN, BOOKS, CULTURE, MOVIES