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“In consequence of having had the screw put on…”

Posted on August 16, 2014 by ActonBooks

Every once in a while you bump into something you weren’t looking for, but the happenstance makes you smile. Although FH Lewisson of Auckland, New Zealand has been dead this many a long year, you have to have hoped that … Continue reading →

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‘With your bodies between your knees’

Posted on July 10, 2014 by ActonBooks

Eager to sample the recently unveiled Spectator archive, which is cheeringly welcoming to all (pro tem), not skulking behind the palings of some pay wall, I came across this chorus of Floreat Etona in an article published in the summer … Continue reading →

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