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Love Poems

Dante Alighieri, Anthony Mortimer and J.G. Nichols

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Dante is known to most readers outside Italy for his gritty descriptions of the Inferno, but there...

The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)

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To be young and carefree amid the blue waters and idyllic landscape of sun-drenched Italy in the...

The Food of Thailand: A Journey for Food Lovers

Murdoch Books Test Kitchen and Pornchan Cheepchaiissara

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The Food of Thailand gives you a real taste of a country that has one of the world's great cuisines....

Unusual Wines

Pierrick Bourgault

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Volcanic vineyards listed as UNESCO World Heritage, a peace wine blending over 600 varieties from...

Jonas Carpignano recommended Nashville (1975) in Movies (curated)

Nashville (1975)

1975 | Classics, Drama, Musical

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"I was lucky enough to work with Joan Tewkesbury, who wrote Nashville, and the process that she used to make the film is something that I find to be very helpful. She went to Nashville and wrote about the people she encountered when she was there. So in that way, the film was born out of the place. It wasn’t a film that tried to encapsulate the place but a film that tried to grow out of it. There’s so much realness there. For people who didn’t live in that time, that’s the image we now have of Nashville then, in the same way that Paisan created that image of Italy."

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Emily Mortimer recommended The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: Girls of Slender Means, Driver's Seat & the Only Problem in Books (curated)

"The novel begins “Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions.” It’s in the bombed out London of 1945 at the end of the war in a shabby, genteel boarding house for young ladies called the May of Teck Club. We meet the various girls of slender means and follow their lives and love affairs. I love all Muriel Spark’s books and think she is witty and elegant and spiky and weird. I met her once in Italy when I was a teenager and she told me, “For the next ten years all you should do is sleep and go to parties.”"

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