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Journals Volume 1 (1996-2001) — a review by Jad Adams

  Journals Volume 1 (1996-2001): A Soho Golden Age by Ernst Graf Reviewed by Jad Adams NB: Mr Adams submitted this review to Amazon and Amazon perfectly understandably removed it … Continue reading

November 24, 2018 · Leave a comment

A personal memoir of autism, Asperger’s, pornography, prostitution, strip clubs, strippers and Soho–JOURNALS: VOLUME 1 (1996-2001) by Ernst Graf (£3); now with explanatory footnotes

March 27, 2018 · Leave a comment

A Keeper of Love’s Flame: Regine Olsen and Søren Kierkegaard

APRIL 9, 2014 By Morten Høi Jensen LA Review of Books ON MARCH 17, 1855, the 33-year-old Regine Olsen was due to leave Copenhagen for the Danish West Indies, where … Continue reading

June 24, 2017 · Leave a comment

Notebook written by unknown 17th-century William Shakespeare scholar comes to light leaving Antiques Roadshow expert ‘trembling’

The notepad is said to be one of the mst remarkable items ever to feature on the Antiques Roadshow Telegraph Reporters Telegraph 2 APRIL 2017  A17th-century notebook containing the jottings … Continue reading

April 3, 2017 · Leave a comment

Blots and all: Gustave Flaubert’s travel diary among rare books at historic sale

Handwritten book full of crossings-out and comments reveals Madame Bovary author’s literary struggles Not going with the Flaubert: the precious travel notes. Photograph: Stéphane Briolant Kim Willsher Guardian, Monday 7 … Continue reading

November 7, 2016 · Leave a comment

Patrick Hamilton’s Hangover Square and a slide into the abyss

Written in the shadow of the approaching second world war, the novel tells the tale of a man at battle with himself and the world around him Anthony Quinn Guardian, … Continue reading

August 6, 2016 · Leave a comment

Diary of a somebody: could I solve the mystery of 148 lost notebooks?

After biographer Alexander Masters was given a pile of discarded diaries, he began piecing together a life Alexander Masters with the diaries that were found. Photograph: Pal Hansen for the … Continue reading

April 30, 2016 · Leave a comment

Sherlock Holmes manuscript expected to fetch up to £300,000

Handwritten draft of 1893 mystery to be sold at literature auction in US along with other works by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Holmes. Photograph: … Continue reading

March 31, 2016 · Leave a comment

Autismus — First volume of my journals on Kindle

YOU ARE REALLY GETTING TO PEOPLE NOW. THIS IS HOW MY SITUATIONIST REVOLUTION IS PROGRESSING. I WILL BE GOING ON A SITUATIONIST GEO-PSYCHIC TOUR OF EUROPE. LADY TARA IS THE … Continue reading

September 28, 2015 · Leave a comment

‘Hide your life’ was not his only obsessive command

“‘Hide your life’ was not his only obsessive command. ‘Break with the external world’ he advised Alfred, in a harangue anticipating the memorable declaration of a later period that his … Continue reading

September 20, 2015 · Leave a comment

The ERNST GRAF JOURNALS on Kindle & in Paperback

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