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Piano Music - The Food Of My Love For Mary
My late father’s Broadwood baby grand piano entertained my sister and me throughout our early childhood. The sounds of Chopin mazurkas and Beethoven sonatas lulled us towards the land of nod each night. Towards the end of his life, the quality of my
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Sky Warriors
William Collins, 573pp, £25 ‘They were a wonderful lot,’ according to nurse Cicely Paget-Brown. ‘They were so different from ordinary soldiers.’ On Churchill’s decision, Britain’s Airborne Force was born in June 1940. Parachutists risked life and lim
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I Am My Brother’s Keeper
I used to query the accuracy of ‘Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.’ (Matthew 5:4) When we are young, grief feels incomprehensible and wrong. When we get old, the truth of this Beatitude comes into its own: we realise that grie

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