Haarlson Phillipps

Yesterday my daughter was walking through Oxford town centre when she received a call on her mobile from Amazon. (US? UK? Germany? France? W...

Called into an exhibition at La Pedrera , you know, as you do, on the way home from work, the other day. Really glad I did. As I say,  j...

Undergraduates who have had the benefit of a private or independent secondary education should pay FULL market-rate fees (i.e. cost plus mar...

In October last year Barcelona, INK published one of my short stories. The magazine - Barcelona's only literary magazine in English - (T...

Exhibition opening at Gràcia Arts Project last night. Didn't go. Instead went along to a regular meeting of an English creative ...

Photography exhibition preview at the Maritime Museum in Drassanes last night.  Names of contributors you'll likely recognise include Sa...

Have been active on the Trip Advisor Barcelona travel forum over the past month or so - perhaps a more socially useful form of procrastinat...

Ian Rankin was in town last week. He was here to receive the Pepe Carvalho prize. The prize, named after Manuel Vázquez Montalbán 's d...

Scott Pack, over at Me and My Big Mouth has very generously given my novel After Goya a positive mention. You can read my comments on this...

ASSAULT GUARDS, CIVIL GUARDS & CARABINEROS or the publicly funded, private rearguard armies of the Republic's Stalinist lackeys. Par...

Part Four of a series of six posts. SEE previous posts here , here , and here . OK, let's put Orwell's caveat in place first: It wi...

When noting that sign-language was proscribed by Franco during the early years of his dictatorship in this post I recalled the Carlos Saura...

Part Three of a series of six posts. See previous posts here and here . See next post here . On page 207 of his book Orwell - The Life D.J...

Part Two of a series of five posts. SEE previous post . SEE next post . On page 149 of Orwell - The Life D.J. Taylor refers to : …. St...

A few years ago a very good friend bought me D.J. Taylor ’s biography, Orwell: The Life . It's an entertaining and informative read. Ho...

Like many Brits of my generation when ever I hear the word 'submission' I immediately bring to mind Saturday afternoon TV wrestling....

I'm working my way through an ARC (Advanced Reader Copy) of my novel After Goya , highlighting typos. Yes, after years in the making, Af...