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34 days ago

Queen Esther by John Irving review – a disappointing companion to The Cider House Rules

The once-great author revisits St Cloud’s orphanage all too briefly, in a novel that begins with an adopted girl but wanders all over the place

If some writers have an imperial phase, where they hit t…

11 months ago

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS: Why is there a blue plaque in Birmingham to the US author Washington Irving?

Washington Irving's first visit to Birmingham was in 1815, at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, when he stayed with his sister Sarah, her husband Henry van Wart and their children.

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