THE INDEPENDENT: Measured time is the heartbeat of The Morville Hours: a 20-year lease, the seasons of the gardener's year, the hours of the monastic day, the quartered hours of the church clock, the fleeting moment... and time stretching backwards, the recorded past, history and prehistory of a particular place.
allAFRICA: "Casa das Ideias" publishing company will place this Wednesday at the meeting hall of Lusíada University, here, the book entitled "Biography of a demobilised soldier and other tales" of the Angolan writer, Manuel Ribeiro.
CBC CA: Vancouver writer
David Chariandy, whose book Soucouyant was nominated for a Governor General's Award in Literature, and Toronto writer C.S. Richardson's The End of Alphabet have been nominated for the $7,500 First Novel Award.
EMERGING WRITERS NETWORK:
C.M. Mayo's Tameme has just published the second in its lovely chapbook/cuadernos series. Tameme's mission is to promote English to Spanish and Spanish to English literary translation of new writing from North America.
RICK LIBRARIAN: He focuses on a short period of Shakespeare's life, 1603-1605, the time during which he resided in an upstairs room in the home of the tyremakers Christopher and Marie Mountjoy. Without making many firm statements about the Bard himself, Nicholl fully describes the circumstances of his life.
TELEGRAPH: Jane Shilling reviews The Siege by Ismail Kadare
In 2005 Ismail Kadare was the first winner of the Man Booker International Prize, a honour that undoubtedly made him the world's most famous Albanian novelist, but perhaps did not altogether consolidate the international reputation his remarkable writing deserves.
THE INDEPENDENT: The spirited Renaissance beauty Isabella de' Medici (1542-1576) was the daughter of Cosimo, who established the Medicis as the pre-eminent political family in 16th-century Florence. She became the city's "First Lady" on her mother's death in 1562. Exuberant, profligate and hedonistic, she had an inordinate passion for hunting, music and poetry. In the womb she was so lively that her mother was convinced she would be a boy and, throughout her life, her "masculine" vivacity was remarked upon.
THE INDEPENDENT: Althorp in Northamptonshire is 500 years old this year, and to celebrate, there is an especially strong line-up at the annual literary festival. Opening the festival on 13 June is Clarissa Dickson-Wright, 'spilling the beans' over wine and canapés (£20). On Saturday 14 (12.30pm), Allan Mallinson talks about his latest military novel, 'Warrior', set in 1828. Justine Picardie explains how the lives of Branwell Brontë and Daphne du Maurier entwine in her novel 'Daphne' (2.45pm). I
TELEGRAPH: Chris de Bray reviews Spellbound by Beauty: Alfred Hitchcock and his Leading Ladies by Donald Spoto
"The Birds is coming!" joked the posters for Alfred Hitchcock's movie, and come the birds did - right at Hitchcock's leading lady, a glassily demure former model called Tippi Hedren.
THE INDEPENDENT:
To begin with, home is almost always a place that we don't appreciate when we are there. Its omnipresence makes it invisible.
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