Archive - Behind the Privet Hedge

August 2025

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June 2025

Descent into madness on a quest for opera in the Amazon jungle

The re-release of Burden of Dreams brings back searing memories of the mighty river

Jun 25 •

Arcadia is a place of rural bliss for some, dispossession for others

Sir Philip Sidney's epic prose evokes an antiquarian paradise. It's based on a lie

Jun 18 •

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