Month: September 2020

The Fiorella Files Episode 22 - Kipling, Keneally And Jonasson Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally Revisit the book that spawned one of the most ground-breaking blockbusters of the nineties. One day, Thomas Keneally entered a luggage store, got chatting with the proprietor and came out with every writer’s dream – an amazing story about an enigmatic German businessman who saved the lives of hundreds of Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland. Kim […]

The Fiorella Files Episode 21-Graham Greene, CS Forestere And Orlando Figes A People’s Tragedy – Orlando Figes Read the definitive history of the tragedy that was the Russian Revolution, but give yourself plenty of time…and possibly a stiff drink or two. Figes’ excellent work is not for the impatient or the faint-hearted. The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene We’ve looked at Evelyn Waugh, it’s time to take on […]