Matt Potter
A Very Special Recipe
‘I have become a monster.’ The line that defines Italian investigative journalist Roberto Saviano’s crawl beneath the skin of the global cocaine trade is one that every journalist who’s ever got too close to their subject has told themselves. If you’re unlucky, it’s one you might repeat every day you wake up with the consequences. For Saviano, those consequences are all too real. Since he wrote Gomorrah, the definitive book on the Neapolitan Mafia, his life has become one of safe houses and round-the-clock police protection.
The irony of a reporter living under
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In this month's Bookends, @AdamCSDouglas looks at the curious life of Henry Labouchere: a friend of Bram Stoker, 'loose cannon', and architect of the law that outlawed homosexual activity in Britain.
https://literaryreview.co.uk/a-gross-indecency
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Patricia T O'Conner on her love for Angela Thirkell. (£)
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