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Wood pigeon

MARTINA NICOLLS  is an international aid and development consultant, and the  author   of: Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

Rue Alfred Bruneau, Paris

MARTINA NICOLLS  is an international aid and development consultant, and the  author   of: Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

Provincial Paris

--> MARTINA NICOLLS  is an international aid and development consultant, and the  author  of: Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

A Little Circle of Kindred Minds - Joyce in Paris by Conor Fennell: book review

A Little Circle of Kindred Minds: Joyce in Paris (2014) is the biography of Irish author James Joyce living in Paris during the 1920s and 1930s.  Fennell focuses on Joyce’s friendships – his kindred minds - and of gaining and losing friendships, primarily based on issues with money.  Joyce had many friends, such as Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Ernest Heminway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Robert McAlmon, Thomas MacGreevy, Samuel Becket, Sylvia Beach, and Harriett Stow Weaver. His friends were predominantly from America, the United Kingdom, and Ireland, but also from around the world. Many of his friends remained throughout his life, while few were short-lived. Fennell’s book describes the friends that were supportive of Joyce and his writing ‘genius’ and those who became friends of his whole family – his wife Nora, and his two children Giorgio and Lucia. And those whom fancied Lucia and whom Lucia fancied.  It describes how Joyce managed to obtain many friends...

Enjoying myself as bridesmaid at a Georgian wedding

MARTINA NICOLLS  is an international aid and development consultant, and the  author   of: Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

Carmichael's Monkshood - Aconitum carmichaelii

MARTINA NICOLLS  is an international aid and development consultant, and the  author   of: Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

The Axolotl

MARTINA NICOLLS  is an international aid and development consultant, and the  author   of: Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

Sunday Walk: a long wedge of light

MARTINA NICOLLS  is an international aid and development consultant, and the  author  of: Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).