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LEAF ARBUTHNOT - "Looking for Eliza"

Looking for Eliza is the original title, but we have a certain inclination for the Italian one - which translates Two Cups of Tea at Swinburne Road – because it conveys a more romantic, and "English", geolocation. We talk about it with the author, 31-year-old Leaf Arburhnot, assistant editor of The Week magazine and freelance journalist, whose reviews and articles have been published in magazines such as Vogue, The Sunday Times and The Spectator.

Jeffrey Archer - The art of writing

With works published in 100 countries and more than 51 languages Jeffrey Archer is one of the top 25 fiction authors of all time. His books have sold over 275 million copies worldwide and he is the only author ever to have been a number one bestseller in fiction (nineteen times), short stories (four times) and non-fiction (The Prison Diaries).
To mark the publication of his latest book Next in Line, he tells us about his work, his dreams, and much more.

THE TREASURE OF CADIZ – An adventure of the Black Corsair

(Story freely inspired by Emilio Salgari's Black Corsair)

The Black Corsair was a tall, slender man with an elegant bearing. His features were beautiful: a regular nose, two small lips, red like coral, a wide forehead furrowed with a slight wrinkle, which gave his face a melancholy air, and two eyes as black as charcoals with a perfect cut, vivid and animated, surrounded by long and lush lashes.

One day the Corsair arrived in Cadiz, a town located along the southwestern coast of Spain. For some time, in fact, it had been rumoured that a magical treasure was to be found right here…