I usually can't get through an entire biography, but "Catherine of Aragon" by Giles Tremlett was enthralling. It read very much like a novel, so I actually felt I was present in the story. The only thing I wondered is if Catherine played any role in persecuting Protestants. Giles doesn't mention ...
In recent years, I have made a friend in the last surviving member of the Interior Directorate (DI), the anarchist exile clandestine committee dedicated to the assassination of Generalissimo Francisco Franco. From plans to bomb him en route to work, to the audacious plan to bomb him from the air ...
Breakfast is served without any words being exchanged between myself and the waiter, beyond a brisk ‘buenos días’. He knows my order. It appears automatically, the clanking, bashing, steaming and sizzling of coffee machine and plancha, the hot plate used for frying and toasting, starting as soon ...