Topic: Tangier
Spectator, The London | 2008-11-06 00:41:27
PAUL BOWLES : A LIFE by Virginia Spencer Carr Peter Owen,
The Americans come off the boat.
They may come singly, or in couples or even in a threesome, but there is no safety in numbers, for their fate is sealed the moment they step down the gangplank. The Americans are innocent of course, but they are not very nice. As ...
Spectator, The London | 2008-07-02 05:15:54
SPIRIT OF TANGEIR by Tessa Codrington Arcadia, £25, pp. 365, ISBN 9781905147847 £20 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 In 1926, Tessa Codrington's maternal grandfather, Jack Sinclair, once British Resident in Zanzibar, decided to buy for his wife a house on the 'New Mountain' in Tangier. One of Muriel Sinclair's many eccentricities was that she ...
