Forgive me for posting it so late. You know, for teachers June can be really hectic! But here it goes and I hope to post now regularly again! People sometimes confuse John Williams with the African-American writer John A. Williams, or even with the composer of Star War, actually tha…

Mothering Sunday Review Recently I've read a novel of an author, I'm ashamed to admit, totally unknown to me, Graham Swift. “Mothering Sunday” is a very short story, just 149 pages, but that's enough to cause an impression I won't forget soon! In a typical for …

On November, 5th in Irun, we will talk about Ian McEwan's "Atonement". I remember analysing it for the first time in 2013 at the meeting in San Telmo Museum. It was one of t he activities accompanying temporal exposition  1813. Asedio, incendio y reconstrucción de San Sebast…

During our last Donostia Book Club meeting we talked about George Orwell's “1984” and Orwell's biography. One of the first interesting things is, that not many know George Orwell's real name. Yes, you got it right George Orwell is a pen name! He was born as Eric A…