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“... Naguib Mahfouz made his name with his trilogy of Cairo life – Palace Walk, Palace of Desire and Sugar Street – first published in Arabic in the late Fifties. At first glance, The Harafish, which was originally published in 1977, bears little resemblance to, say, Palace Walk. The latter is a story of a family in an ‘alley’ in Cairo in the first half of the 20th century, and is told in a straightforward chronological manner that seems to owe something to the 19th-century European novel ...”

“... good pupil to my lord of Leicester, who was wont to put all his passions in his pocket’. Catherine de’ Medici said that one should avoid making open enemies because one would need them as friends in the future. Contemporaries – friendly or hostile – appear to have been unanimous in describing Ralegh as proud, arrogant and aggressive: ‘in ...”

“... it was written out, and enclosed between embroidered covers, as a New Year’s present for Catherine Parr, Elizabeth’s fourth stepmother, and her last. This text has never been edited or analysed before, in spite of its fascination as a holograph manuscript by the future Gloriana. Astraea, Una, the Faerie Queene. Marc Shell expresses surprise at ...”