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In the footsteps of Captain Corelli: A pilgrimage for the book that transfixed 15-year-old me

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Lily Richards takes an epic trip to the setting of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – the book that saved her from herself.  It takes 23 hours to journey from Auckland to Cephalonia, Greece, island home of the fictional Captain Corelli, Dr Iannis, and his daughter Pelagia. For those 23 hours I was filled with a deep … Read more

Leonard Cohen’s amazing island life, and the New Zealander who documented it

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The little-known New Zealand-born novelist Redmond Frankton “Bim” Wallis was on the Greek island of Hydra with the young Canadian. A thinly veiled autobiographical fiction offers an intriguing first-hand account of Cohen on the brink of the international renown that would make him one of the most significant literary and musical figures of the coming decades, write … Read more