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Patrick Leigh Fermor Dies at 96

Published June 10th, 2011

Patrick Leigh Fermor Dies at 96
Dashing war hero, bon vivant, charming author of a string of sublime travel books, the gentlemanly Anglo-Irish Patrick Leigh Fermor died on June 10 at age 96. In her introduction to Leigh Fermor’s A Time of Gifts, Jan Morris, without too much hyperbole, called him “infinitely more than a travel writer, also a memoirist, a
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Eva Ibbotson 1925-2010

Published November 19th, 2010

Eva Ibbotson 1925-2010
The celebrated Austrian-British author of The Star of Kazan and many other books for children and adults died at home in Newcastle on 20 October 2010. A delightful young adult adventure, The Star of Kazan twists and turns through Ibbotson’s fin-de-siecle Vienna. Annika, a foundling taken in by a household of eccentric professors and kind
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