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Blinded by the light: Rafael Tur Costa at Collioure

Kate 07/02/2022 0 Comments

In the courtyard, around the cloister, along the byways of Collioure, the Musée d’art moderne offers a summer programme for all the family.

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Book Club: Normal People by Sally Rooney

Laura McLellan 06/02/2022 1 Comment

This book made me look back and realise I shouldn’t have been so hard on myself. It also made me very grateful to no longer be that age!!

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Book Club: Priest

Kate 30/01/2022 0 Comments

Book Club: Priest’ by Sylvia Davey Authentic First Novel About the Cathars in the Aude and Ariege

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Book Club : On Chesil Beach

Laura McLellan 25/01/2022 1 Comment

The majority of the story takes place on the wedding night of Edward Mayhew, a bright young history student, and Florence Ponting, a promising young violinist.

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Book Club : A Light Shines in Darkness

Laura McLellan 04/01/2022 0 Comments

Regular book reviews from P-O Life readers: an online forum for fellow anglophone book worms to share and discuss authors and titles, no matter the genre

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Novel – Left luggage in Barcelona, by Simon Newman

Kate 04/01/2022 0 Comments

Left luggage in Barcelona  by Simon Newman – available on Amazon Kindle   Burned-out media hotshot Joe Palmer goes to Barcelona in search of – well he doesn’t want to be greedy but a total…

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Book Club : All the Light We Cannot See

Laura McLellan 30/11/2021 3 Comments

Regular book reviews from P-O Life readers: an online forum for fellow anglophone book worms to share and discuss authors and titles, no matter the genre

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P-O Life Arts Exhibition: Matthew Hilton

Laura McLellan 30/11/2021 0 Comments

Known for his distinctive linoprints, artist Matthew Hilton believes that “the function of a work of art is to halt, however momentarily, our rush to the grave.”

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Filmed in the P-O… Geronimo

Kate 20/11/2021 0 Comments

Flamenco meets “West Side Story” in Tony Gatlif’s high-energy face-off between Spanish and Turkish communities in a French housing project

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Book Club : The Poisonwood Bible

Laura McLellan 20/11/2021 0 Comments

Not a new release but definitely worth a read if you haven’t already, or a re-read if you have!

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