Donna Tartt: The secret history
What is a good book, a good novel? One that grabs you, draws you inside it’s pages, inside the story and even stays in your mind when you have read the last word. At least
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Sorry, I’ll go & see Hamlet
Yes, I know. I’m the one people who know everything about books, theatre, cinema or other cultural stuff are shaking their heads. And (hold your breath) I’m not a theatre goer. It’s not that I
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Twitter!
Twitter is apparently the one of my social media platforms that I discovered twice. First time it was one of the „Hey-there-is-something-new-on-the-internet-you-have-to-be-part of-things“. So I signed in, found myself lost in space, especially with the
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James Rhodes: Instrumental: Violence, music and love
The thing with autobiographies is they can go totally wrong, trying to convince the reader what a perfect, clever, self-confident and of course perfect looking human being the writer is – and leaving you as
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My dear Bessie
In times when everybody had a pen and pencil and using a computer or chatting online seemed unthinkable or only possible in the mind of some people living way ahead of their time or writing science
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Sherlocked – the convention
Where shall I start writing about an weekend that was stuffed with such a variety of experiences that still are not sorted in my mind – probably never will? At the beginning there was this
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What Alan Turing was looking for at Ebermannstadt
It is not a peculiarity of our times that the NSA – America’s National Security Agency – wants to know everything, even in the most distant places of our planet. And Ticom (Target Intelligence Commitee), NSA’s predecessor, wanted
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Alan Turing – His work and impact
If you stumbled across Alan Turing because of the film „The Imitation Game“ starring Benedict Cumberbatch in the lead role, you may be aware of Andrew Hodges‘ biography „The Enigma“ – the basis of Graham Moore’s
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„The Sherlockian“ for – Sherlockians
It’s all about diaries. At least the missing one (or a collection of papers) of Arthur Conan Doyle’s that inspired many Sherlockians for years. And it obviously inspired Graham Moore, the script author of the
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Alan Turing – the codebreaker
It was a secret world behind the Victorian facade of the house in Bletchley Park some 70 kilometres Northwest of London. At the beginning of the second World War the British government realised that it would
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