Paul Kaye

99. Geoffrey Winthrop Young: poet, mountaineer, educator by Alan Hankinson
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Challenging the establishment

I saw the cricket stadium but went the wrong direction from Lords.

98. Let’s Go Climbing by Colin Kirkus
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Patronising and sexist

97. The Zen of Climbing by Francis Sanzaro
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Could’ve subtracted more

You may know this already, but the Senne is a river, just not in France.

96. The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald
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Arts, not books

95. A Portrait of Leni Riefenstahl by Audrey Salkeld
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An ambiguous legacy

‘People called Flores they go the house’?

94. Nottingham, tome 1: La Rançon du roi by Vincent Brugeas, Emmanuel Herzet, Benoît Dellac and Denis Bechu
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Bad to good

If they’re asking because they simply don’t understand why there is variation, would that just be ignorance rather than ableist? If they have some knowledge of why the variation exists, and are questioning why it needs to exist, would that be the point where it becomes ableist?

93. L’Arabe du futur, tome 2: Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient (1984-1985), by Riad Sattouf
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Had forgotten Tintins

92. Dart by Alice Oswald
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Copious broken eddies

It’s wondrous. I read the first three volumes a few years ago but somehow stalled at the (much thicker) fourth, which has been waiting on my shelf the last few years. But a friend choosing it as her book-club pick has given me the chance to start it again. Such a pleasure. And another five to come!

91. L’Arabe du futur, tome 1: Une jeunesse au Moyen-Orient (1978-1984), by Riad Sattouf
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Minutely observant child

90. Pamiętnik antybohatera i inne utwory by Kornel Filipowicz
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Heroically straightforward writing

89. Engines of Privilege: Britain’s private school problem, by Francis Green and David Kynaston
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Lessons learned dearly

Have done a lot of journeys recently with little to no delay. One was about 20 mins late, though. 45 mins to get to Liv St feels slightly tight, though (and I’m renowned among family and friends for cutting things tight).

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88. The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White
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A narrow watcher

87. The Blue Book of Nebo by Manon Steffan Ros, adapted from Welsh by the author
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Even Snowdon deserted

I’m a confirmed runner but I see this happening all the time and the entitlement baffles and riles me. All part of the upside-down ‘I’m going faster so I must have right of way’ thinking that infects a lot of car drivers and very many cyclists.

86. Oxford Pamphlets on World Affairs: Czechoslovakia, by Robert Birley
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Short and sweet

85. The Devil’s Wall: the Nationalist Youth Mission of Heinz Rutha, by Mark Cornwall
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The other side

84. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Third time; unlucky

Voracious: Małgorzata Lebda and Antonia Lloyd-Jones in conversation with Sasha Dugdale | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about Voracious: Małgorzata Lebda and Antonia Lloyd-Jones in conversation with Sasha Dugdale...

Come and hear Polish poet Małgorzata Lebda discuss her wonderful debut novel VORACIOUS with its fine translator @antonialloydjones.bsky.social on Thursday 29 May at 1830 – a visionary account of the lacework of interrelationships between people and the earth.

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I’m pleased to have been invited to take part in this discussion about how translation affects meaning in the theatre. Wednesday May 28, Jermyn Street Theatre, 5.45 (preceding a performance of “Little Brother” by Timberlake Wertenbaker. Details below. www.jermynstreettheatre.co.uk/jst-pre-show...

83. Τώρα! by Παναγιώτης Πανταζής and Τάσος Παπαϊωάννου
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The same record

82. Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
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Very mistaken identity

I didn’t think it was a chaffinch but didn’t have enough confidence to contradict someone with ‘birds’ in their bio!

Female chaffinch, presumably? Or a juvenile?