Author Archives: Charles Lambert

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Charles Lambert

Trip Fiction is a brilliantly conceived site that puts together two of my passions: books and travel. Its strap line is “See a location through an author’s eyes”, and it works like this. You click on a city and up pops a list … Continue reading →

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The Slave House

Posted on May 6, 2013 by Charles Lambert

In 1978, I moved to Portugal to work as a teacher of English for a private language school in a coastal town south of Lisbon called Setúbal. It wasn’t an easy time for me. I was 24, single, unqualified apart … Continue reading →

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Poets on Pasolini

Posted on April 19, 2013 by Charles Lambert

The British Film Institute has been running a season of films by Pier Paolo Pasolini recently. As a side-dish to the season, Simon Barraclough was asked to round up a bunch of poets and see what kind of work Pasolini’s … Continue reading →

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Finally, the news I promised…

Posted on March 26, 2013 by Charles Lambert

I’m a shy type so I’ll let my fabulous agent, Isobel Dixon, say this for me. Here’s her press release: Isobel Dixon of the Blake Friedmann Literary Agency is pleased to announce two new deals with UK publishers for Charles … Continue reading →

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News, but not yet

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Charles Lambert

The year so far has been full of unexpected – and gratifying – surprises. Unfortunately, I can’t talk about them yet. But, believe me, I will…I will…

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Alison Moore, The Lighthouse, and Cristoph Simon, Zbinden’s Progress

Posted on November 28, 2012 by Charles Lambert

I seem to have been reading a lot about walking recently, but everything I read takes me back to a single text called In Praise of Walking. It was written by Thomas A Clark some years ago and, even though I … Continue reading →

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Luciano Barca

Posted on November 11, 2012 by Charles Lambert

Friday began with a funeral and ended with a suicide. The funeral was that of a friend’s father, and of a friend’s father-in-law, but also, and more simply, of a friend. His name was Luciano Barca. I first met him … Continue reading →

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Charlottenburg, Berlin

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Charles Lambert

Our last full day in Berlin we decide to shop. All we’ve bought here so far, apart from food and drink, is a box of tea lights, a signed calendar from a painter called Andrea Sroke with a stall in … Continue reading →

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An episode

Posted on October 29, 2012 by Charles Lambert

I was editing an urgent report when the date on the toolbar caught my eye: 24/10/2012. The day after my birthday. That’s odd, I thought, we must have forgotten to celebrate. But how could that be? I went through to the … Continue reading →

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Schöneberg, Berlin

Posted on October 21, 2012 by Charles Lambert

Our pocket-sized Lonely Planet guide book says Schöneberg is Berlin’s gay village so we take the S-Bahn from Alexanderplatz and head out there, leaving the train at Nollendorfplatz. This puts us in the middle of the itinerary suggested by the … Continue reading →

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