From the archive for the #1949Club, my thoughts on THE GIRL ON THE VIA FLAMINIA by the author & screenwriter Alfred Hayes. Set in Rome in 1944, it's a beautifully written novella, shot through with an aching sense of sadness. A favourite book from 1949. 💙📚 jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2018/12/04/t...

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These last few months the brilliant singer songwriter Ciaran Lavery has been responding to #NoVacancy with a suite of five gorgeous new songs about hotel life. We premiered our collaboration of songs, tiny stories and hotel chat at a sold out gig as part of BIAF and it was a roaring success.

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We’d love to take this show on the road in the new year so if you’re a book festival, programmer or hotel who might be interested in hosting us just give me a shout for more details.

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But I can't be nostalgic for a world in which my ancestors lived "an existence defined by grueling labor, frequent hardship and particular vulnerability to natural and economic disaster," as Scott says. There was a good reason why one of them upped and moved to the East End of London after all.

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"Go back far enough in your family tree, and you are likely to find people who can be classified as peasants." I'm four generations removed from agricultural labourers whose place on the Essex/Suffolk border went back centuries (according to family genealogy). Only four generations but a world away.

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