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  • Geoff Dyer grows up

    Geoff Dyer grows up

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    Andrew Green
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    Geoff Dyer is one of those authors who never writes the same book twice.  He’s produced around twenty of them so far, on a kaleidoscopic range of subjects, including the history of photography, India, Soviet film, the First World War, jazz heroes, Roger Federer and war movies.  My favourite is Out of sheer rage: wrestling…

  • Kyffin Williams the writer

    Kyffin Williams the writer

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    Andrew Green
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    The text of the 8th Kyffin Williams Annual Lecture, given at Highgate School, London on 1 February 2016. First, I’d like to thank David Smith and Highgate School for inviting me to give this year’s Kyffin Williams Lecture.  It’s very fitting that Highgate remembers Kyffin so loyally, because he was always grateful to the school…