Charlie Connelly

15 February 2021

The remarkable European life of a Police Academy star

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12 February 2021

The literary character behind Netflix’s Lupin

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11 February 2021

Why Dante still divides Italy

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11 February 2021

Simone Simon: The French actress who found herself on trial

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05 February 2021

A modern retelling of a mysterious death

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04 February 2021

The restless soul who epitomised sex, drugs and rock’n’roll

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28 January 2021

The unassuming author who shrugged off scandal and success

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28 January 2021

The remarkable story of Helga Weyhe

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24 January 2021

The magic of hotels – and what we miss about them

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24 January 2021

The self publicist surrealist who survived a brush with death from his own art

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16 January 2021

The introspective spirit who teased out the talents of others

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15 January 2021

The underground language of Europe’s outcasts

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10 January 2021

Alberto Giacometti and the moment that transformed his art

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09 January 2021

Spain’s search for its lost Shakespeare

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02 January 2021

The dancing defector whose ego almost overshadowed his talent

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31 December 2020

From Zoom bookcases to Donald Trump’s bible… a bibliophile’s review of 2020

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19 December 2020

The spooky German tale that inspired a Christmas tradition

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19 December 2020

The man who turned down Bowie and Bono

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17 December 2020

John le Carré – The author who called out government’s ‘patriotism’ as nationalism

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13 December 2020

The Soviet hero who turned dissident

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11 December 2020

Bad year but good books: My recommendations of 2020

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06 December 2020

Sixteen of the best books to give as gifts this Christmas

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06 December 2020

The woman behind one of the 20th century’s most chilling phrases

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29 November 2020

The high flier who became a national hero for France

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23 November 2020

The writer who captured the essence of Europe

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20 November 2020

The Booker Prize’s most bizarre bunfight yet

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12 November 2020

How to help the bookshops left teetering by lockdown

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12 November 2020

The actress who never took the easy option

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05 November 2020

How Europe influenced Robert Louis Stevenson’s lesser-known work

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05 November 2020

Great European Lives: René Goscinny

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05 November 2020

Wilfred Owen – the voice of the fallen

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05 November 2020

Jacques Anquetil: The clinical cyclist who never charmed the crowds

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