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ACCOMMODATION AVAILABLE
Snowdonia, secluded cottage. Ideal retreat, remote, beautiful. 2 beds. Available for one year (negotiable) for £350pcm. Friendly owner.
tel: 07740 874 354
email: bearn@post.harvard.edu
Writer's secluded 3 bed house, Shoreditch. From May, incl. Olympics. Negotiable.
tel: 0207 729 2242
PARIS ST. GERMAIN week or month charming top floor, elevator, ideal for two people.
email: nicoletta.nicola@tin.it
Sunny two bedroom flat in Hammersmith, quiet street near river. Available from January. £1500p.c.m. negotiable.
email: alanprivett@onetel.com
Central London. Unique Grade 2 listed luxury one bedroom apartment. Historical area St Pauls, Bank of England, Guildhall. Interior designed Light Excellent location £650pw.
email: tracytasker@hotmail.com
Magical, golden Dordogne Chateau. Sleeps 15. Beautiful light. 60 acres. Pool. Tennis.
web: www.goursac.com
South-West France: large, detached house in quiet village, sleeps 10.
web: www.maisonlepicvert.com
Shropshire Hills AONB: self-catering four-star coach-house flat in tranquil and very rural countryside near Wenlock Edge, Much Wenlock and Ludlow. Sleeps two to three plus cot if required.
web: www.ferndaleflat.co.uk
ACCOMMODATION WANTED
Friendly, reliable and creative young couple (theatre director and doctor) seek north or east London 1/2 bed flat to make home. Budget around £280pw.
email: jonnyandclaireflat@gmail.com
Debut children’s author/illustrator; Greenaway nominated; stereotypically impecunious. Seeking: London garret (March to September). Offering: gallant deeds, piano playing and/or general enslavement.
email: sassoon.ad@gmail.com
Studio apartment / garden flat / en suite room with study wanted as a short term let for academic in central London from the beginning of March to the end of October 2012.
email: info@thesocietyforcuriousthought.com
Mature woman seeks room to rent within easy travelling distance of Kentish Town from April. Commuting long distance from home to manage a psychotherapy service for a North London charity (4 days per week).
email: marquez.lola@gmail.com
Mature resourceful post grad researcher looking for quiet accommodation in or near north London from March 2012 in exchange for research, secretarial, (bilingual English-French) support and/or part-time companion/ care duties.
email: sabctravel@yahoo.com
BUSINESS
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CALL FOR READERS
By accident three LRB readers bumped into each other in Cardiff recently. After a lively hour in the Chapter bar we thought it might be good if LRB fans in South East Wales got in touch with each other for occasional meetings and intelligent conversation. If you’re interested please contact me. Croesawir atebion yn Gymraeg neu Saesneg.
email: eu.maeus@btinternet.com
CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS
AUTHORS. Please submit synopsis plus 3 sample chapters for consideration to: Olympia Publishers, 60 Cannon Street, London EC4N 6NP, UK.
tel: Tel: 0207 618 6424
email: editors@olympiapublishers.com
web: www.olympiapublishers.com
COMMISSIONS
Artist blacksmith seeks commissions for gates, railings, weathervanes, fireguards, and all other metalwork.
email: agnesmjones@gmail.com
web: www.agnesjones.com
EDITOR’S ASSISTANT
Need help to meet a publisher’s deadline? Masters graduate offers meticulous copy-editing, indexing, proofreading & general support. Specialist areas: literature, philosophy, film, music. Excellent refs.
email: nedroberts@hotmail.com
HOLIDAY
La France Profonde. Cantal farmhouse. Terraced garden, c.h., open fire. Sleeps 4 - 6. Available March - October. From £250 pw.
email: michel.guille@gmail.com
HOLIDAYS
Florence, comfortable, quiet and central apartment, sleeps 4.
tel: 0039 0557 309126
web: www.casaparenti.com
Chania, Crete Writer's restored stone house in idyllic village. Two Bathrooms, A/C. Extensive terraces, views. £300 pw. .
tel: 0207 729 2242
Autumn/Spring in Umbria. Private, charming rural apartment for 2. Relax, enjoy forest walks, empty restaurants, quiet galleries. Day trips to Florence and Rome 1.5 hours by train.
web: www.justfortwoitaly.co.uk
Self-catering Seychelles.
web: www.thehouse.sc
Paradis en Languedoc. Winter retreat or summer holiday idyll.
web: www.franceazure.eu
Paradis en Languedoc. Winter retreat or summer holiday idyll.
web: www.franceazure.eu
Provence. Leap forward into summer.
web: www.provencemagique.com
Rome (near Spanish Steps) apartment 80sqm for weekly/monthly rental. See images: Living/dining room, bedroom, bath, kitchen, patio.
tel: +39065783777
email: paulahowarth@paulahowarth.net
web: www.paulahowarth.net
A house in Sicily?
web: www.sicilianhideaway.co.uk
Dordogne farmhouse – solo retreats, workshops, family gatherings to 20, three independent buildings, underfloor heating, computer, screens, wifi, projection.
web: esparoutis.com
Chania, Crete Writer's restored stone house in idyllic village. 2 Bathrooms, A/C. Extensive terraces, views. £350pw.
tel: 0207 729 2242
France Profonde: Simple, rustic coach house and garden in heart of medieval St Benoit. Two boulangeries, good walks, chateaux and swimming lakes.
web: www.stbenoitdusault.com
South-West France. Comfortable, stylishly restored cottage, sleeps 2, tranquil, private, with expansive views, £200-£335/wk
tel: tel:0033 563795360
email: thelittlehousetarn@yahoo.co.uk
web: www.thelittlehousetarn.co.uk
Rome, the Vatican, Florence: Tours for Discerning Travellers.
web: www.roma-antica.co.uk
INDEPENDENT CAFE
Coming To Hong Kong? Missing Your LRB and good coffee? Visit us in Stanley (The Plaza: just 5 minutes walk from the market) or at our café on the Peak (100 Peak Rd Dairy Farm Building) At Saffron you can have your cake and eat it too. We also love visiting authors, poets and writers of any ilk who like to give readings and sell their wares. www.saffronbakery.com/ Contact us at saffronbakeryhk@gmail.com
email: saffronbakeryhk@gmail.com
web: www.saffronbakery.com
PERSONALS
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Before I turn 40 I would like to enjoy stimulating conversation, breathless laughter and soul kissing with a man I like (and could perhaps build a future with).
email: talklaughkiss@gmail.com
Late 20s male, living north of London. Like all aspiring writers, would prefer Paris but have neither money nor mettle for relocation. Rather, have thus far settled for life of mundane pleasures and job stability. Less like Heathcliff, more Sancho Panza (sans corpulence). Seeking: female, close in age, willing to meet a man of no magnitude.
email: servuscallidus@gmail.com
TALL,Successful London male 49, public school educated, sporty, cultured, seeks pretty, feminine, classically traditional female to 40, looking for a life-time partner. For FULL profile and details contact or call: NO FEE reqd. Rhodes-Harvey Introductions.
tel: 0845 226 3189
email: jrh@rh-introductions.co.uk
Attractive, university graduate seeks mature man to admire and hug. She is tall, slim, sensitive. Divorced, no children. WLTM tall, fit, caring, attractive man, 60+, curious about life, with whom to explore a wide range of interests.
email: ashc463@gmail.com
POEM
Mrs T.
A satirical poem to go with the new film.
web: www.edgewaysbooks.com
PSYCHOANALYSIS
Ready to show up for your life? Psychotherapy can help with anxiety, depression, unsatisfactory relationships etc. Two minutes from Bond Street tube.
tel: 07939 111605
web: www.elizabethmaitreyi.com
PSYCHOTHERAPY
Psychoanalytical Psychotherapist in the tradition of Freud and Lacan. East London (some availability North London). UKCP registered. Member of Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research.
tel: 075837 09758
email: cvollans@gmail.com
web: www.carolinevollans.co.uk
SPECIALIST BOOKSELLERS
We buy and sell language books. Foreign, Celtic, English, from libraries to single items.
address: Marijana Dworski Books, Broadaxe Business Park, Presteigne LD8 2LA, Powys. U.K.
tel: 01544 267 300
email: info@dworskibooks.com
web: www.dworskibooks.com
Books Bought & Sold. Balkans, Russia, C.E. Europe, Central Asia from libraries to single items - travel, history, politics, culture, language.
address: Marijana Dworski Books, Broadaxe Business Park, Presteigne LD8 2LA, Powys. UK
tel: 01544 267 300
email: info@dworskibooks.com
web: www.dworskibooks.com
WRITERS’ RETREATS
Spring Writers Retreat at Casa Ana, Andalucia. 1 – 29 February 2012
Writers’ retreats from €195 per week. A room of your own, inspiring surroundings, good food and the company of other writers. Only 4 places available – early booking strongly recommended
“Casa Ana offered a perfect writing environment…”
“"I came for the Writers’ Month this November and my only regret was that it wasn't longer.”
tel: 0034 958 766 270
email: info@casa-ana.com
web: www.casa-ana.com/writers-retreats.htm
Writing Fiction By The Sea. Join Prize winning authors Andrew Miller & Tobias Hill for a course in dazzling Vejer, Andalucia. 10-15 Sept. Oil painting, film studies, flamenco workshops.
web: www.arthouseholidays.com
Writer's Retreat at Baroque Villa in Tuscany - 18th-25th March Includes: seminars, readings, feedback and individual manuscript assessment; elegant & tranquil surroundings, ensuite accommodation, Wifi, all meals inc. wine, transfers to/from local airport. Hosted by author/editor/publisher Jason Beacon. Special LRB readers offer: £650 Full details/contact, see Events or call.
web: www.sanroccobenabbio.com