Hungary

Hungary is a fiercely proud nation with a distinctive literature, thanks to its unique and ferociously difficult language. And the annual spring National Book Week is a correspondingly important event in the calendar. This year’s National Book Week, running June 4th-8th, was the 86th, and also comprised the 14th Children’s Book Fair – illustrated in […]

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I’m going back to the UK for a week from Hungary to touch base with family, friends and some things literary as well. Besides literary London and Gothic London, and Jane Austen’s Hampshire, I’ll also be trying to see some significant British writers and editors, and communing with something less tangible: The spirit of English […]

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One of Budapest’s most fascinating and attractive specialist bookshops, as well as the storefront for one of Hungary’s largest music publishers, is Rózsavölgyi és Társa, just off the tourist thoroughfare of Váci utca and a major feature of the Rózsavölgyi House, itself an architectural monument. As the pictures indicate, this is mostly a music bookshop, with possibly the […]

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The centenary of the outbreak of World War 1 in 1914 is naturally bringing out a lot of commemorative publications of varying kinds, as well as all the events and documentaries, etc., and Alexander Watson’s Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War 1, is one of the more interesting and revisionist, and the […]

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I was lucky enough to spend Sunday at Hungary’s biggest leading convention, Tavasi MondoCON,  in brilliant sunshine and surrounded by brilliant costumes. I was blown away by the scale of the event and the dedication put into the costumes, in a country of just under 10 million, which hardly counts as the wealthiest, most sophisticated […]

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As TeleRead readers will be well aware, Chromecast, Google’s neat HDMI-compatible AV streaming dongle and its associated programs,  has been around for a while now; but it’s only just made it to certain European markets, and courtesy of my parents, I may still be Hungary’s pioneering Chromecast owner. And though I love the technology, my […]

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