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Your Father’s Room Michel Déon Review

September 5, 2017 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Book Blast review of Your Father’s Room by Michel Déon translated by Julian Evans. French novelist Michel Déon was born in Paris and died in Galway in 2016 at the age of 97. Admirers of […]

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Gael Elton Mayo Spain Revisited Harpers & Queen BookBlast® Estates

May 28, 2017 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Gael Elton Mayo (1921-92) journalist, writer and artist, was a contributor to Harpers & Queen, Apollo, Interiors and The Observer. Spain Revisited was published in 1985. Spain is a ‘place apart’ from Italy, France and […]

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Magnum Photographic Group Gael Elton Mayo Apollo Magazine BookBlast® Estates

May 12, 2017 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Gael Elton Mayo (1921-92) was writer-researcher for the Magnum Photographic Group, Paris, 1950-56, working with Robert Capa, David Seymour and Henri Cartier-Bresson. She wrote Generation X (England) with Cartier-Bresson, later changed to Youth of the […]

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A History of the Authors Club of London C. J. Schüler Review

April 24, 2017 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Book Blast review of Writers, Lovers, Soldiers, Spies: A History of the Authors’ Club of London 1891-2016. “The history of the Authors’ Club is studded with famous names: Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, Rider Haggard, […]

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Lesley Blanch A Bohemian Life, Waterstones London News Archive

December 26, 2016 Georgia de Chamberet Comments Off

Lesley Blanch’s memoirs, On The Wilder Shores of Love: A Bohemian Life, published posthumously by Virago, will now be available in paperback. Join Lennie Goodings, Anne Sebba and others for an evening celebrating Trailblazing Women […]

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Maurice Girodias & Olympia Press Explorations

March 11, 2016 Georgia de Chamberet 1

Maurice Girodias writes in his introduction to The Olympia Reader, Grove Press, 1965: “Since my earliest childhood the notion of individual freedom had been deeply rooted in me. Everything I saw or felt as I […]

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On the Wilder Shores of Love: A Bohemian Life News Archive

September 2, 2015 Guest Contributor Comments Off

On the Wilder Shores of Love: A Bohemian Life, a collection of autobiographical writings by the travel writer Lesley Blanch, opens The Authors’ Club autumn season of events with Georgia de Chamberet discussing the life […]