Posts belonging to Category 'Bookworms'

November 30, 2009 | Posted by Andy Carling
Brussels Cultural Guide
€10, Fondation pour les Arts á Bruxelles
The next time someone tells you that Brussels is boring, slap them over the head with this book. The quality and diversity of Brussels’cultural life is very impressive, especially for what is a small city and this book documents it all. The first half of the guide [...]
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November 2, 2009 | Posted by Andy Carling
The history of the Congo/Zaire since the Belgian colonisation has been an unending nightmare and the war that has been going on since 1998, costing an estimated four million lives, is largely forgotten and unreported. Award winning photographer, Marcus Bleasdale has just produced his second book, One Hundred Years Of Darkness, with horrifying images of [...]
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October 21, 2009 | Posted by NE Admin
Mr Singh Has Disappeared: a concussed novel, Horst Prillinger, €10
Larry Singh has a problem. All he had wanted to do was to search for an Indian waiter who had mysteriously disappeared. Now he is suddenly receiving anonymous letters, he is followed by crooks who want money from him that he does not have, and for [...]
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October 6, 2009 | Posted by NE Admin
Join A Library
For many expats being a bookworm in Brussels can be very expensive, however the city does have some very good libraries with substantial English and other language sections. One is the H.O.B. at Place de La Monnaie, where a €5 annual fee grants access to their collection. Downstairs there is a good English [...]
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October 2, 2009 | Posted by NE Admin
New Europe previews the launch of a study in journalism on the edge.
By Andy Carling
Veteran Brussels journalist Martin Jay has enjoyed a dynamic career as a freelance journalist, which included setting up The Sprout, an irreverent and provocative look at political life in Brussels. In his new book Girls, Guns and Gonzo, he revisits his [...]
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