Sarah Bernhardt and Khalil Bey

Sarah Bernhardt, although already famous as an actress, was encouraged to moonlight by her own mother Youle, who, with her sister Tante Rosine were well-established courtesans. Below is an extract from my book, Sarah Bernhardt: My Erotic Life (available at Amazon’s, in both…

A Tale of Two Trains

I read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s great classic, One Hundred Years of Solitude

about 40 years ago when I was in Nigeria, and decided to re-read it. It is a magical book_ and I am not writing about the magic realism genre the author adopts. It is every bit as fresh as…

Gypsy Soul

How do you know that you have found home. Do you see it in their eyes or is it the smell that guides you where you ought to belong! Could…

Livingstone and Me

David Livingstone was born over two centuries ago, and he is still much written about. I surprise myself at the shifts in my perception of this great Scottish hero. Not always one of mine though.