Love from VeniceIn the summer of 1957, anxious to impress an admirer who had moved to Paris, while rebelling against her family, Gill Johnson, aged twenty five, gave up her comfortable job at the National Gallery in London and travelled to Venice to take up a job teaching English to an aristocratic Italian family. 'Love from Venice' is her vivid evocation of that summer, the last hurrah of the European Grand Tour, when the international jet set lit upon the city for

when aeroplanes were just being invented

' Libby Page

These two fears drove both his anti-semitism and his determination to secure the 'living space' necessary to survive in a world dominated by the British Empire and the United States

imperfect women

As the Western world turns against 'experts'

and from the Vatican to Palestine

we lose it forever - an idea captured by the Japanese phrase 'ichigo ichie

contemporary drama

and to introduce horrifying hallucinations in his victims

despite his hedonistic tendencies

roadside verges

Six years later