William Dalrymple Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

William Dalrymple

You can also hear much of the brilliant@BGPrize shortlist @JaipurLitFest '23, including Jonathan @Freedland on the Escape Artist, Caroline Elkins on A Legacy of Violence and @AnnaLandmark on The Restless Republic

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The wonderful @edmunddewaal being sensitive, charming and brilliant with @AanchalMalhotra @JaipurLitFest and telling us about The Hare With the Amber Eyes and his life as a writer, memoirist & potter https://t.co/FaBierAEnT

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Bram Stoker completed the circle by naming his own vampire story Dracula in 1897, after reading about Vlad in the library at Whitby, Yorkshire, where he makes Dracula come ashore, with his nine coffins filled with Transylvanian soil. https://t.co/j2H7VME1Ac

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Devastated to hear the news of the tragic death of my friend Karni Jasol, the director of Mehrangarh museum & archives. He was one of the kindest & most helpful men in Rajasthan & the genius who enabled fabulous shows like Garden & Cosmos & Peacock in the Desert. Om shanti! RIP. https://t.co/A2JtceBMwZ

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Bram Stoker completed the circle by naming his own vampire story Dracula in 1897, after reading about Vlad in the library at Whitby, Yorkshire, where he makes Dracula come ashore, with his nine coffins filled with Transylvanian soil. https://t.co/j2H7VME1Ac

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Ferdowsi’s Shahnameh is the supreme masterpiece of Persian literature, the vessel into which Persia’s greatest writer poured everything that had been salvaged from the wreck of Persian antiquity. https://t.co/pISESuYzXT

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Amazing, amazing @Hanifkureishi Hanif Kureishi to publish memoir about accident that left him paralysed. Shattered, out in 2024, will expand on the material the Buddha of Suburbia author has been sharing from his hospital since a fall in Rome last year https://t.co/cMJDyh4ZGg

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Byron never published the story, but his doctor John Polidori (who was one of the first pupils at my school, Ampleforth) later completed published it as The Vampyre in 1819. Here for the first time, the vampire becomes both an aristocrat and Byronic sexual predator. https://t.co/kKloUswdyJ

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"Who controls the past... controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." George Orwell, 1984- quoted by @orlandofiges in The Story of Russia, his brilliant new extended essay on the power of history to form, and deform, the present.

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@rsen5 @EmpirePodUK @ignatius_sancho @DavidOlusoga I'm afraid next week's episode with Vincent Brown about Tacky's Revolt is more difficult still.