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I wrote last month about my latest translation, Clouds over Paris, which I’m delighted was chosen by Hatchards as its non-fiction Book of the Month, and has been featured in The New European. I also wrote about the book for Hatchards’ blog, the text of which I thought I would reproduce here. In September 1952, […]

I mentioned last time my recent trip to Minnesota. I got back just in time to experience the two hottest days in UK history (phew!), before heading off to Paris for a few days. It was years since I’d been, although I felt I had been exploring the city in absentia thanks to my latest […]

I’d never heard of this opera until I found this, a first edition of the libretto (Ivanhoé, opéra en trois actes, imité de l’Anglais, Paris, 1826), by Émile Deschamps and Gabriel-Gustave de Wailly after Sir Walter Scott’s novel, in a striking contemporary binding.  Rather than its being an original opera by Rossini, it was a […]