A LITERARY WORLD Author Interview with David Ebsworth Today I am delighted to have as my guest, author David Ebsworth, whose debut novel The Jacobites’ Apprentice, set in England and Scotland during 1744-45, was a finalist in the H.N.S.Award, Sept 2014. In January 2015, the blog-site The Review, listed it as its Book of the […]
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Turkish Carpets: From the Steppes of Central Asia to the Tudor Court. Most people take carpets for granted but what they don’t realize is that that they have been with us for a few thousand years and like all the arts, reflect our changing civilizations. The earliest carpet handed down to us dates from about […]
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A Literary World Author Interview with Linda Bennett Pennell Welcome to A Literary World. Today, I am honoured to have as my guest, Linda Bennett Pennell, an author who describes herself a true G.R.I.T.S (Girl raised in the South) and whose love of America’s “deep south” is clearly evident in her novels. After being […]
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Rebetika: Music of Love, Joy and Sorrow Greek music known as Rebetika has often been compared to American Blues, flamenco, fado, bal-musette and the tango in that it is music created by a marginalized lifestyle that originated out of despair – crime and imprisonment, drink, prostitution, disease, lost love, death and exile The word is […]
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A LITERARY WORLD Author interview with Antoine Vanner Today I would like to welcome to A Literary World, the distinguished author, Antone Vanner, a man I’ve come to admire, not only because we share a common interest in The Ottoman Empire, but because Antoine’s own life would make a thoroughly gripping book in itself. Having […]
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