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In 1990, spurred on by the success of his writing and his marriage to the writer Aileen Armitage, Deric Longden made a momentous move to a foreign country. Huddersfield, in Yorkshire, with its distinctive manners and customs and its wealth of remarkable characters, would surely provide him with all the material he needed for his planned book, one...

'I am plagued by the nightmare that the party that started with Gladstone will end with Ashdown'. Paddy Ashdown wrote this following his election as Leader of the future Liberal Democrats in 1988. Faced with party infighting, the conflict with David Own and the SDP, and the brink of financial insolvency, Ashdown's future seemed doomed. However, by...

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When Edvard Grieg came to give his first concerts in London, he had the world at his feet. As the first composer to transmute the sights and sounds of his own spectacular country into music, he was held to be both prophet and pioneer, and English writers described him as the most popular of all living composers, commenting, when he returned to...

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"Kot w pralce" to zbiór felietonów. Wstęp do książki napisał Janusz Głowacki. Z prawie 300 tekstów, ukazujących się w magazynie "Viva!" w latach 2001 - 2012, wybrane zostały prawdziwe perełki, w których autor w sposób dowcipny, nierzadko z dużą dozą ironii, komentuje rzeczywistość i wprowadza nas na salony....